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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