Author: Mike Byrne
Date: 14:59:42 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 CEBoard is great pocket pc software made available for free by our Alain. It has Crafty Classic 2004 - Bob Hyatt 's Chess program modified with some custome personalities. Alain took that source and made it work in CE Board. Another Crafty first, Crafty was the first chess program to utilize EGTB on a Pocket PC. It does have EGTB support and all 4Man EGTBs fit easily on CF Card. CEVoard is also inteh process of adding additional engines including Fruit. Pocket Grandmaser is a good program with 3 excellent engines - Gromit, SOS and the outsanding Ruffian engine. With the addition of the fourth engine. Fruit , it is now a "must" own program for PDA chess enthusiast. Fruit is the only Pocket PC program that can more than hold its own against Hiarcs for the Palm. I would like to see PGM add some Bryan Whitby's chess pieces. Pocket Fritz 2 was at one time the strongest PPC chessprogram. It is based on the Shredder 7.0 and has not been updated for a couple of years. I believe it has been surpassed by HIARCS and Fruit in strength. HIARCS is clearly the strongest chess program for the the PALM and legitimately can make claim that it is the strongest PDA chessprogram. But I am not sure the Fruit enhusiasts agree! Also, all Palm chessprograms now run on a Pocket PC! Get the Pocket PC prgram "Styletap" (search google) , install this little gem and you run many Palm programs on you PPC. This is true for HIARCS, Genius and Tiger. My over clock Dell at 600 Mhz is roughly equalivalent to a 400Mhz Palm unit - it runs Palm Chess programs faster my Zire 31 OC to 300 Mhz - AMAZING. Chess Tiger was at one time the top chess program for the Palm but it has not been optimized for the newer xscale processors. It plays a mean game and has 4 different Tiger engine setting to pick from. Chess Genius is the only PDA program that has been written for both types of PDA in native PDA code. Pocket PC and Palm versions are available. By the way, its author, Richard Lang has won many world computer chess championships while working fo Mephisto in the late 80's and early 90's. His programs will give many chess players fits and are included insome of most desirable dedicated chess computers in the world. His fast searching engine can search over 100K nps on a PDA. He has also port his program to many cellphones, check his webpage for details. One final note, you buy one of his programs just once ever - he provides free lifetime upgrades. (Note - most of the authors do allow you to upgrade or excange your PDa and they willprovide you new registration code for free. In my book , every one of the above chessprograms is a "must have" for a serious PDA chess enthusiast, To recap: MUST HAVES Palm HIARCS GENIUS Tiger Pocket PC CE Board (3 engines) Fritz 2 (Shredder engine) Genius Pocket Grandmaster (4 engines) and with Styletap all Palm chess programs under pocket PC. for a a weaker , but still fun to play against engine, there is Chess Partner for the PPC as well.
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