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Subject: Re: NOVAG Star Sapphire VS programs for Pocket PC or Palm??????

Author: Djordje Vidanovic

Date: 09:06:52 10/31/03

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On October 31, 2003 at 11:56:44, Steve Maughan wrote:

>>Is the Novag Sapphire stronger than Tiger 15 for palm or Genius for pocketpc
>>(or smartphone) or Fritz 2 on pocketpc(say a dell axim?)? A descripion is
>>below.
>
>Here's my view:
>
>v Genius for the Palm OS 4 - Not sure which is stronger - maybe Novag
>v Genius for the Palm OS 5 - Genius is better
>v Tiger for Palm OS 4 - probably Tiger but may be close
>v Tiger for Palm OS 5 - Tiger is better
>v Genius PocketPC - Genius is better
>v Fritz 2 - Fritz 2 is better
>v Genius for Smartphone - Genius is better
>
>i.e. on very slow machine Novag maybe has chance but even on the Nokia
>Smartphones the Novag would be beaten by Genius
>
>Just my opinion - other may disagree

Chess Genius 1.1 for the Nokia  7650/3650 is apparently better than the Novag
Sapphire.  Please look up the post by Eduard Nemeth (a couple of weeks ago...?)
who described a match between the Novag Star Diamond (the same program as the
Sapphire) and the Nokia Chess Genius.  The match ended 7.5-2.5 for Chess Genius.
The Nokia Genius runs on a RISC Arm-9 processor at 104 Mhz and plays about 2300
ELO (my estimate).  It beats most of the WB engines rated close to or even above
2300 (I've tried it out in several games, but have not played much as I had to
do it manually and found it laborious and boring).

Djordje



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