Author: Alastair Scott
Date: 01:45:04 09/14/03
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On September 13, 2003 at 21:25:41, Bob Durrett wrote: >I see now that my bulletin in this thread was misleading. I would use my >regular PC to obtain a collection of games and put it into a named database. I >would then simply COPY it into the handheld's memory storage element [which >takes the place of a hard disk or floppy]. I would never attempt to perform >database management on a handheld. > >Consider Kasparov's new book, "Gary Kasparov on My Great Predecessors Part I." >This book is a collection of annotated games. Almost all of those games are in >Chessbase's Megabase 2003. In preparation for the study of this book, I copied >these games into a small database just for this hardcopy book. Then, when I >read the book, I simply call up the game and follow it on the monitor as I read >the book. This allows me to evaluate my own ideas using a chess engine. Doing >this evaluation of my own ideas helps me to understand the inner workings of >those games. Typically, I say to myself: "Why didn't White play XX-XX?" I >play it on the computer and the engine quickly lets me know whether or not my >idea is any good, and if not why not. > >That is what I would propose to do on the handheld. I would not do any database >management on the handheld. Who would? In other words, a PGN reader. For this task, if you still fancy a PDA, the PocketPC is definitely the winner as you could just copy the PGN file to it and use Grandmaster Chess (http://www.pocketgrandmaster.com/ - my favourite) to work it. Whereas PalmOS is different; although it has many virtues it has no file system (a deliberate design decision) and dealing with multiple games is difficult. What there would have to be is a PC application, acting as a conduit, to synchronise each game in the PGN file to a different memo (a text scratchpad provided as part of PalmOS); Chess Genius for Palm or Chess Tiger for Palm already offer facilities to pick and choose from games stored as memos. I don't think such a _standalone_ application exists, although it could probably be easily written. (PocketChess - http://www.handmark.com/products/detail.php?id=85 - does offer the facilities I've described on PalmOS, but the playing program is of poor quality; despite what you say you'll soon want to play the computer :) Alastair
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