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

Author: Mike Byrne

Date: 19:02:41 08/18/03

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On August 18, 2003 at 14:52:22, Joost Buijs wrote:

>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.
>

do not hold your breath, about a year ago Christophe told me via email that a
PPC version was not in the works - although his web page still states otherwise

scroll up after this link - the PPC version is now in the same state that the
Star Diamond was once in -- vaporware...


http://www.rebel.nl/~chesstiger/faq.html#improve (then scroll up)


>>
>>
>>    Christophe



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