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Subject: Re: 57 page review of 24 Palm and 39 Pocket PC chess programs

Author: Ian Osgood

Date: 17:52:09 01/19/06

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On January 17, 2006 at 15:42:22, enrico carrisco wrote:

>On January 17, 2006 at 01:48:22, Richard A. Fowell wrote:
>
>>I just noticed this review by Dr. Axel Schumacher
>>
>>http://www.grailmaster.com/misc/chess/comp/chessrev/chessreview.html
>>
>>The review is online, and also downloadable in .DOC and .PDF formats.
>>
>>-Richard
>
>Hello Richard.
>
>This review was posted here last September by Axel himself.  Unfortunately, for
>Palm users, it is not the best reference as Axel does not own a Palm device
>himself and therefore had limited time to test the Palm programs.
>
>There were some discrepancies with the Palm HIARCS review that I pointed out to
>Axel here in the forum and if I remember correctly, there were some features
>attributed to Palm Chess Genius that were only available in the Pocket Chess
>Genius that threw the Palm rankings off a bit.
>
>However, for Pocket PC users, I'd say it's right on the mark.
>
>Regards,
>
>-elc.

I find it funny that PocketCrafty is still 15th out of the 55 programs reviewed.
 I started writing a PocketPC UI for Crafty because there were no other strong
chess programs for the iPAQ at the time.  I stopped work on it when Richard Lang
ported ChessGenius to the Pocket PC.  I'm glad people still find it useful after
all this time.

Trivia: the pieces used in PocketCrafty are based on the same Cheq font used in
Deep Green, the strong gnuchess-based program for the Apple Newton.

Ian Osgood



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