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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