Author: souche
Date: 01:26:01 02/09/00
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On February 08, 2000 at 14:43:24, Ian Osgood wrote: >This is excellent news! Richard's programs are a perfect match for the Pilot! >In my opinion, the Pilot/Genius combo is the ideal portable chess computer. > >The Mephisto Roma, upon which this program is based, has an old SSDF rating of >2030 on a 14Mhz 68020. I would expect ChessGenius on a standard 17Mhz Palm to >exceed this strength (especially if the Palm is overclocked). > >I am surprised that Scott Ludwig would report on this, since he has a competing >product (PocketChess). Perhaps they collaborated on the UI? Scott is a really nice guy and true sporting, commenting a precedent mail (about chromagames) he announced this news. By chance (?) the release happened same time. I don't know about collaboration but i don't think, Scott is working on a complete UI with many options and possibility, nothing in common with the poor genius UI (can not even save a game). Concerning absolute strength the challenge is difficult for Scott but regarding function and aesthetic he'll remain at the top with is new version IMO. > >I will be downloading Genius as soon as I get home tonight! I will test its >strength against the SapphireII later this week (at shortest time controls, >obviously, since the pre-release version is time-limited to 1-sec/move after >move 20). I'm impatient for your results, unfortunately 1-sec/move isn't the more interesting level IMO. Regarding Christophe's comments, Genius is surely more close to SapphireI (2080), your tests will give us more informations. Do you use Afterburner ? Thierry > >Ian
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