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Subject: Re: Palm Hiarcs V Fruit 2.1 the result

Author: Majd Al-Ansari

Date: 04:07:11 10/15/05

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On October 15, 2005 at 03:35:01, Clive Munro wrote:

>You may recall a couple of weeks ago I said I would pit my Palm Hiarcs 9.46 on a
>Palm Zire 21 (126MHz) v Fruit 2.1 on a (relatively) slow P166 laptop.
>
>It was a 10 game match played at game in 60. Fruit had 4MB hash (its lowest
>setting) and Hiarcs had 512KB hash (my Palms max setting!).
>
>There were no draws in the match.
>
>Fruit crushed Palm Hiarcs 8-2!
>
>It is only fair to point out that even on this slow hardware Fruit was looking
>around 4 ply deeper the Hiarcs.
>
>Game 10 was the only game, which looked like a draw. With Fruit showing +3.0
>Hiarcs had locked the position and both were shuffling pieces about. As the
>50-move rule approached Fruit swapped a pawn and sacrificed its knight. It then
>went on to win!
>
>If anybody is interested in having the games just E-mail me and I will send them
>to you in CBV format.
>
>Clive

Interesting, but I have found that Fruit on PPC platform and using PGM interface
to be disappointingly weak.  I have a much harder time beating Pocket Fritz 2 or
PPC Genius.  I don't know if that is due to the PGM interface.  My PPC device is
a 400MHz compaq PPC.  I have tried the Hiarcs on PDA and felt that it was
extremely strong.  Much stronger than the PPC versions mentioned.  At least as a
human player I found it stronger.  I think with PPC platform a lot affects the
strength of the software.  Peripheral things such as VGA resolution etc... could
have tremendous effect on the strength of the programs.  The data you have
provided is great but I think more data is required.



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