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Subject: Re: Pocket PC - Who's king of the hill? Plus, any recommendations?

Author: Timothy J. Frohlick

Date: 11:54:12 08/18/05

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Axel,

You are smarter than Leko but not a grandmaster. Don't take anything that
anonymous hotmail posters say seriously.

Enjoy the day,

Tim


On August 18, 2005 at 13:09:08, Axel Schumacher wrote:

>On August 18, 2005 at 11:43:51, Majd Al-Ansari wrote:
>
>>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.
>
>
>You must be a potential world-champion.
>In a test match, Pocket Fritz beat Peter Leko, ranked 2741 Elo.
>I tested Pocket Fritz and couldn't even get close to a win either.
>(I have no FIDE rating, but I guess I'm at least 10 Elo weaker than Leko ;-)
>
>Cheers
>Axel



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