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Subject: Re: ChessGenius - Mini Review

Author: Steve Maughan

Date: 00:34:17 02/16/00

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David

>To get a feel for it’s rating, I played a series of short matches against
>popular dedicated computers of known strength I have in my stable. Richard
>estimated the playing strength at around 2000 elo so I decided to start by
>pitting it against the Saitek GK2100 which is generally felt to play between
>2100 and 2200 USCF.
>
>At game in 5 minutes, the GK2100 crushed ChessGenius 4-0. At game in 15 minutes
>GK2100 again crushed ChessGenius at 4-0.

I have also found that Palm Genius struggles against GK2100. I think it's Palm's
'boggey' opponent.  From Eric Hallsworths rating list it would seem that the
Roma should be about the same strength as the GK2100 (based on >1000 games).
This would give a rating of ~2000 ELO or 2150 USCF

>The thing I have to stress here, of course, is that this thing plays pretty >damn well for something the size of a deck of cards!!
>Check it out. It’s the best thing out there for the Palm Pilot!

I agree!

Regards,

Steve Maughan



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