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Subject: Re: has anyone tried out other chess programs on palm then CT15 and geni

Author: Christophe Theron

Date: 08:49:16 02/13/04

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On February 12, 2004 at 11:05:38, Djordje Vidanovic wrote:

>On February 12, 2004 at 09:38:05, Christophe Theron wrote:
>
>>On February 12, 2004 at 08:34:44, J. C. Boco wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>The answer to this question is NO.
>>>>
>>>>But don't take my word for it and try the other ones... You'll come back to
>>>>Tiger or Genius.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>    Christophe
>>>>
>>>
>>>Hi Christophe,
>>>
>>>There are Palms now with an extended landscape screen.  A nice use for the extra
>>>real estate would be to show several lines of analysis, don't you think?  (wink
>>>wink)
>>
>>
>>
>>Yeah, sure.
>>
>>The problem is that Palm and Sony create a new variation of their display every
>>week. How do you think it is possible to keep up with that while improving the
>>chess engine, while converting it to ARM, while adding endgame tablebases, while
>>adding games database management, while...
>>
>>Next thing, I'll be asked to allow Chess Tiger to include a picture of the
>>players in the PGN file. Yes, there are Palms with integrated cameras...
>>
>>
>>
>>    Christophe
>
>
>
>Christophe,
>
>you just might be able to indulge them in all these. However, I am positive that
>you could not offer the Fischer Random Chess option even with a gun pointed at
>your head :-)  Although this gimmick with photos of players sounds very nice...
>
>Djordje
>
>PS.:  Chess Tiger 15.1 on my Sony Clie (Motorola 68k) is leading against me in a
>long match (game in 2')(39-27 for CT)!  It is so much fun.  On the other hand I
>am leading against Chess Genius (current score 53-40 for me, same time
>controls).



I'm pretty sure you will eventually adapt to the program's style and find
weaknesses!



    Christophe



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