Author: Ricardo Gibert
Date: 08:28:33 09/02/99
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On September 02, 1999 at 07:50:08, souche wrote: >On September 01, 1999 at 17:45:28, Ricardo Gibert wrote: > >>On September 01, 1999 at 11:15:04, Trefor Deane wrote: >> >>>I have a Casiopea E105 32Mb colour palm PC, can anyone recommend A strong >>>Windows CE Chess Program that is available on CD Rom, or one that could be >>>downloaded from the Net. (web address?) >>> >>>Thanks >>> >>>Trefor. >> >>Midnight Chess http://www.midnight-programmers.com/ >>Pocket Chess http://www.eskimo.com/~scottlu/index.html >>Chess http://www.eskimo.com/~scottlu/index.html Correction: Purple Chess http://www.purplesoft.com/ce/palm_ce_chess.htm >>Palm Chess http://www.synctel.com/ >> ><cut> > >>I believe they all have demos, so try them out. Palm Chess is interesting due to >>its support for PGN. One of the demos is so crippled. It only lets you you play >>15 moves (Palm Chess?), but I don't remember which one. >> >>I hope this helps. > >please, post your test (especially strength). Cassiopeia seems having a good >processor (for handtop) i'm very interested. Yes, the Cassiopeia E-100 has a 131mhz VR4121 MIPS processor made by NEC with 16Mb ram, while the E-105 has 32Mb ram ,so they have interesting possibilities for playing chess. If I remember correctly, the CPU has 24Kb of cache divided into 2 unequal parts. One for data & one for instructions. You can check the NEC site for more detailed & more reliable information on the processor. There is a review of Purple Chess vs Pocket Chess at http://5alive.psionking.com/Documents98/battle_of_wills.htm The reviewer was not a strong player. The reviewer set both programs at their respective highest settings with Purple Chess averaging 3 minutes per move and Pocket Chess averaging 1 minute 45 seconds per move. Not a fair test, but the programs are quite bad in any event. I'm a master so my only interest in them is as a portable chess viewer. I think these programs were intended to run in a small amount of memory (less than 4Mb at least) and may not even uses hash tables. Another bad thing is none of the chess programs I have seen for WinCE display analysis. Pocket Chess is freeware and may be the strongest, but I can't recommend it for playing chess. The following game is from the review: Purple Chess vs Pocket Chess 1.b3 Nc6 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.e4 e6 4.Bb5 Nd4 5.Ba4 Bb4 6.e5 Ng4 7.a3 Be7 8.Nge2 Nf5 9.d4 Bg5 10.Bxg5 Qxg5 11.Nb5 Kd8 12.h3 Ngh6 13.O-O a6 14.Nbc3 b5 15.Nxb5 Bb7 16.g4 axb5 17.Bxb5 Bf3 18.Qc1 Qxc1 19.Rfxc1 Bxe2 20.Bxe2 Nxd4 21.Bd1 Rb8 22.g5 Nhf5 23.c3 Nc6 24.f4 Ne3 25.b4 Nd5 26.b5 Nce7 27.f5 Nxf5 28.a4 Nf4 29.Kh2 Nd3 30.Rcb1 Nxe5 31.a5 Ke7 32.a6 Nd6 33.a7 Ra8 34.Ra4 Ndc4 35.Ra2 Ne3 36.Bb3 d6 37.Rba1 Nf3+ 38.Kg3 Ne5 39.Kf2 Nf5 40.Bc2 Nh4 41.Ra4 Nhf3 42.Be4 Nxg5 43.Bxa8 Rxa8 44.h4 Ngf3 45.Kg3 h5 46.Rf4 Nd2 47.Ra2 Nb1 48.Rb4 Nxc3 49.Ra1 Nd5 50.Rba4 c5 51.c6 Nxc6 52.Rb1 Kf6 53.Rb7 g6 54.Ra6 Nd4 55.Kh3 Nf5 56.Rb8 Nc7 57.Rxa8 Nxa8 58.Rc6 Ne3 59.Rxd6 Ke7 60.Rd2 Nc4 61.Rd4 Ne3 62.Rb4 Nd5 63.Rb7+ Ndc7 64.Kg3 Kd6 65.Kf4 e5+ 66.Kg5 Kc6 67.Rb8 Nb6 68.Kh6 e4 69.Rf8 e3 70.Rxf7 Nb5 71.Kxg6 e2 72.Re7 Nd4 73.Kxh5 Na8 74.Kg6 Kd6 75.Kf7 Nc7 76.h5 Nce6 77.a8Q e1Q 78.Qa3+ Kd5 79.Rd7+ Ke5 80.h6 Qf1+ 81.Ke8 Qf6 82.Qe3+ Kf5 83.Qf2+ Kg6 84.Qxf6+ Kfx6 85.h7 Ng7+ 86.Kf8 Nge6+ 87.Kg8 Kg6 88.h8Q Nf5 89.Qh7+ Kg5 90.Rd5 Ned4 91.Qg7+ Kh4 92.Rxd4+ Nxd4 93.Qxd4 Kg3 94.Qe4 Kf2 95.Kg7 Kg3 96.Kg6 Kf2 97.Kg5 Kg1 98.Kf4 Kf2 99.Qc2+ Kf1 100.Kf3 Kg1 101.Qg2++
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