Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 12:08:02 06/09/03
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On June 09, 2003 at 15:07:00, Christophe Theron wrote: >On June 09, 2003 at 04:57:05, stuart taylor wrote: > >> People not involved in chess sometimes look upon a great Palm chess program as >>being one of the lowliest little gadgets anyone could think of, and certainly a >>most obvious one. But the greatest of handheld programs (soon to be Christophes >>upcoming Palm program maximised for about 400Mhz (Arm).Is probably far far >>greater in all its aspects than all the great famous old computers of the 1970's >>and perhaps of some from the 1980's. More recent too, but of those, the Palm >>would CRUSH them in every game. >> We should be happy not to be paying ten million dollars for a recent Palm with >>best program in a few months from now, maybe now too. Not more than one person >>should also have the privelage of having one! >> Not to speak of things like Shredder 7.04 on 3Ghz Athlon, which is almost >>nothing today. >>Who wouldn't have paid alot in the early 1980's for a pocket world champion? ANY >>millionaire who understood what it is would have paid $100,000 guranteed! >> One who didn't understand what it is would never even agree to keep it out of >>the garbage (as far as the chess is concerned) for one second! >>It's sometimes hard to explain this to people, I mean to the type who want it in >>the garbage. I sound to them like a real baby, and all their opinion of me goes >>down the drain! >>S.Taylor > > > >Some interesting numbers: > >SSDF elo rating of Chess Tiger 14.9a for PalmOS running on Palm m515 @42MHz: >2101 (+/- the usual margin of error that can be found on the SSDF site). > >Estimated SSDF elo rating of Chess Tiger 15.0 for PalmOS running on Palm >Tungsten-C @400MHz: 2290 (explanations and formulas can be found at >http://www.chestiger.com, click on the "FAQ" link). A typo! it's http://www.chesstiger.com ! > >Now here is a list of interesting computers or programs tested by the SSDF: > >??? Chess Tiger 15.0 TungstenC (estimate) 2290 ? ? ? ? ? > 96 Tasc R30 v. 2.5 2274 41 -38 343 69% 2136 >104 Fritz 3.0 Pentium 90 MHz 2242 18 -19 1438 42% 2299 >111 Mephisto London 68 030 36 MHz 2216 71 -63 122 68% 2080 >113 Chess Machine 30-32 MHz Schröder 3.1 2205 30 -29 586 64% 2102 >137 Chess Tiger 14.9 Palm m515 16MB 42MHz 2101 69 -74 100 39% 2180 >144 Mephisto Atlanta SH7000 20 MHz 2087 29 -27 667 68% 1956 >154 Sapphire II 2009 34 -32 464 63% 1918 >161 Fidelity Mach IV 68020 20 MHz 1974 18 -18 1495 48% 1988 >184 Chess Genius 1.5 Palm m515 16MB 42MHz 1870 69 -78 100 32% 2002 >185 Mephisto Roma 68000 12 MHz 1869 18 -18 1519 56% 1827 > >(the last two lines show that a Palm m515 running at 42MHz has approximately the >same processing power as a 68000 running at 12MHz because ChessGenius 1.5 for >Palm has the Mephisto Roma chess engine, source is the Chess Genius web site) > > >Whe can tell me the SSDF rating of Belle and Cray Blitz? > > > > Christophe
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