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Subject: Re: Fruit on PPC

Author: Andreas Guettinger

Date: 09:57:51 09/01/05

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On September 01, 2005 at 12:30:19, Mike Byrne wrote:

>I have found Fruit on a PPC to be the most entertaing chess program ever to
>play.  On a PPC, it has a tendency to overlook little traps  I set and falls
>right into them -- just like a human!  Makes for entertaining ( but perhaps not
>great) chess.  ALso, it tends to forget about castling once taken out of book
>(again on a PPC) - so it allows neat sacs to get the attack going.
>
>Note - This is not great chess -- I'm only 1600 or so -- but when Fruit is
>allowed only one second per move, I have a decent chance at winning.
>
>Most interesting agmes to be posted later tonight.
>
>
>Note _- all other PDA chess programs tend not have the problems shown by Fruit -
>but I'm not complaining -- it makes it great fun.

I would prefer if the people would not refer PDAs with PPC.
Fruit runs normal on all Macs I tried and they all run on PPCs. It sure runs
great on PPC G4 and G5.
So the title is misleading and should be "Fruit on PocketPC" or something.

regards
Andy




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