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

Author: Mike Byrne

Date: 05:53:14 11/17/04

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On November 17, 2004 at 07:11:34, bryan whitby wrote:

>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

Yes - which opening books are you using?



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