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Subject: Re: Mike is the Pocket Crafty worth it?

Author: bryan whitby

Date: 04:11:34 11/17/04

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On November 16, 2004 at 23:51:25, Mike Byrne wrote:

>On November 16, 2004 at 23:29:08, Joseph Merolle wrote:
>
>>Mike before I down load this can you give me an idea how stroung it is compared
>>to Pocket Fritz 11. If its strounger or near its strength can you give me the
>>down load link with some instructions. If there is a book also include info.
>>Remember I have the Dell Axim X5 400mhz ram size 64mb rom size48mb. Thanks Pal
>>
>>Jospeh
>
>Not as strong as PFII and Pocket Genius on my Dell.  PPC Genius sees up to 5x
>the number of nodes ,although on my PC - Genius and Crafty see roughly the same
>number of nodes.   The 5x differential is too much to overcome imo.   I have not
>played many games against the two -- so it is mostly first impression.  Richard
>Lang has maximized his throughput on WM2003 Dell Axim.  In addition , the
>foreign Dell roms do better than USA roms (for Crafty at least anyway).  Chess
>Genius on my USA Dell 400 Mhz is 33% faster than Alain 300 Mhz French ROM  Dell
>- right where it should be.  Yet,PPC Crafty is only 7% faster on USA 400 Mhz
>Dell than the French 300 Mhz Dell.
>
>But... CEBoard has many features that no other chess program has in one package
>- it has two engines, full PGN search capability - name, ELO (if staed in ELO
>tag) and position search and handles PGN variations.  When you have it do the
>search, it will automatically search every pgn file.  It appears to be  fast,
>but my pgn files are very small.  I haven't tried a big file.
>
>The program is still beta - and bugs are still being worked out.  It is not
>quite ready for primetime yet - but it's getting close.
>
>.. grab your books from here if you do not have any
>http://www.crafty-chess.com/win32.html
>
>- PPC Crafty uses the exact same  book files as the PC (same format)
>
>CEBoard with engine requires WM2003 (aka PPC2003), CEBOARD without engine will
>work fine on PPC2002 - it is a separate download.
>
>did I mention the price ?  -- FREE --

Mike
I still can't get PocketCrafty to use the opening book.
Is it ok on your PPC?
Bryan




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