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Subject: Re: Genius on Palm / Richard Lang the return

Author: Paul Petersson

Date: 16:48:48 02/08/00

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On February 08, 2000 at 12:55:25, Christophe Theron wrote:

>On February 08, 2000 at 12:09:48, Tony Schleizer wrote:
>
>>
>>The page says that it is based on the Amsterdam program.
>>Can somebody tell me how fast a Palm Pilot processor
>>is compared to the processor the Amsterdam ran on?
>>Also, if anyone has tried this out, what are your impressions
>>of it's strength.
>
>
>It is based on the Roma program, not the Amsterdam.
>
>The Amsterdam was a 16 bits program, the Roma is a 32 bits program.
>
>The Roma program is the last program of Richard Lang that did not use hash
>tables.
>
>It won the 1987 world championship without opposition actually. Saitek and
>Fidelity did not enter the tournament because they were not ready. If they had,
>the Roma program would probably have smoked them anyway.
>
>The Mephisto Roma on a 14MHz 68020 has been evaluated by the SSDF at 2030 ELO
>(with a good confidence: -26 +27, 95% confidence).
>
>The 14MHz 68020 is evaluated at 2 MIPS.
>
>The 16MHz DragonBall EZ (PalmIIIx and PalmV) is evaluated (by Motorola!) at 2.7
>MIPS.
>
>If all this is true, then you can expect the Palm ChessGenius to be rated at
>2050 ELO on a standard PalmIIIx or PalmV, and 2080 ELO (approx) on a 26MHz
>overclocked Palm.
>
>

Hi Christophe!

So when will we get Tiger on the Palm?

How did you overclock your PalmIIIx?


Paul


>
>    Christophe



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