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Subject: Re: palm or ppc which is best for chess

Author: Joost Buijs

Date: 11:52:22 08/18/03

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On August 18, 2003 at 11:52:51, Christophe Theron wrote:

>On August 17, 2003 at 21:28:16, ERIQ wrote:
>
>>I wonder which offers the best chess these days and for what reasons please
>>explain.
>
>
>
>You can get a state of the art chess program if you buy a PalmOS computer (Palm,
>Sony, Handspring...).
>
>PalmOS devices like the Tungsten-C are now using a 400MHz ARM processor.
>PocketPC devices do not have a faster processor.
>

I thought most PalmOS programs on ARM processor still run in emulation mode, and
therefore will not be that fast.

>On PalmOS there is Chess Tiger available (http://www.chesstiger.com) as well as
>ChessGenius.
>
On PocketPC there are at least 17 chess programs available including Pocket
Fritz2 (Shredder 7), PocketGrandmaster (Gromit, Ruffian and SOS), ChessGenius,
Crafty etc.

As soon as ChessTiger for PocketPC arrives I will be certainly one of the first
people to buy it.

>
>
>    Christophe



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