Author: Ian Osgood
Date: 10:52:23 02/09/00
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On February 09, 2000 at 04:26:01, souche wrote: >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. Indeed. It is great that we have more than one choice now! I'm sure I will upgrade to Pocket Chess 2.0 when it comes out. >> >>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. Actually, I believe this is the level most people will use: 1) most people use a *portable* computer for quick games while they are waiting for something (doctor's office, bus ride), 2) most Palm owners are not strong chess players and 1 sec/move is strong enough (if not too strong!). >Regarding Christophe's comments, Genius is surely more close to SapphireI >(2080), your tests will give us more informations. >Do you use Afterburner ? See my promising initial test results in a later thread. I don't use AfterBurner (yet) because overclocking makes me nervous. On the newsgroups, for every couple reports of success there was a report of a lockup. However, if anything makes me try out AfterBurner, chess programs will. :) Ian >Thierry > >> >>Ian
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