Author: Ian Osgood
Date: 10:32:21 02/09/00
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On February 09, 2000 at 02:09:15, O. Veli wrote: >Mr. Lang has a new version of ChessGenius for the PalmPilot on >http://www.chessgenius.com . Does anybody know if this program is stronger than >Sapphire II? Funny you should ask... :) I just downloaded ChessGenius to my Palm IIIe last night. Here are my test results so far. Disclaimer: this is a very small sample; hardly significant. Most are with Genius at 1sec/move, a restriction of the evaluation version. Scores are relative to Genius. Deep Green on Newton (SCP engine, 160MHz StrongARM, no permanent brain) 1 sec: 1 1 2 sec: = = 0 0 2 sec vs. Genius at 2sec through move 20: 1 1 PocketChess (SCP engine, Palm, no permanent brain) Level 1: 1 (blowout) Level 2: = Level 3: 1 Sapphire II (Kittinger engine, 16 MHz H8) 2 sec, no permanent brain: 1 2 sec: = 1 Frankly, I am surprised Genius is having such good results against Sapphire II, which has hash tables, a much bigger book, and an engine written in assembly (circa 1997; the Roma engine is circa 1987). More Sapphire testing will follow tomorrow. Observation: Genius moves instantly some of the time, so I suspect it has some form of permanent brain (which can't be turned off). ChessGenius looks like a winner so far! Its interface is also quite nice and elegant, like Pocket Chess. No bugs found so far. Ian
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