Author: stuart taylor
Date: 18:11:12 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 Sorry, did you say in a different place that ARM native palm Tiger engine which is not yet out, is expected to be much more than 2290?
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