Author: Majd Al-Ansari
Date: 08:43:51 08/18/05
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On August 18, 2005 at 10:00:53, Albert Silver wrote: >I'm going to be getting a strong Pocket PC, a Dell X50v running at 624 MHz, in a >couple of weeks. So who's king of the kill? Does anyone know? Pocket Fritz, >would that be beat by Fruit running on CEBoard? What other engines run on >CEboard, and are there any other chess-related recommendations for the machine? >The only other must-have on my list is Pocket CT-Art the tactical test-suite >program by Chess Assistant. > >Albert I have Pocket Fritz 2 and Pocket Genius (latest edition). I think Pocket Fritz is stronger but they are both quite weak. I have no problem beating either of them quite often at 5 secs. They are especially weak in the endgame where I think they play at a level of about 1800 and are very susceptible to smother attacks. Also the opening book is limited so its easy to setup certain openings that it will always play bad in. Still in tactical positions they can be frustrating to play against ... but then I guess so are all comps. I have heard that Hiarcs is really strong but it is on the Palm platform. I think the breakthrough for Pocket PC's will come when editable opening books come and EGTB are added. Also the new Pocket PC cpu's are supposed to reach 700Mhz. So they will be impossible to beat for most of us very soon.
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