Author: gerold daniels
Date: 15:06:33 08/18/05
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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 Yes i can beat Fritz and Genius most of the time. They are quite weak. :) >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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