Author: Tom Kerrigan
Date: 20:57:26 03/22/99
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One program you might want to check out is PalmChess. http://www.synctel.com/ It's fairly strong. I've been meaning to port my program to the PalmPilot but somehow haven't found the time. It will get done eventually. :) -Tom On March 22, 1999 at 18:10:35, Ian Osgood wrote: >Greetings, > >Would anyone be interested in a comparison of strength and features of the >current set of portable chess computers versus the current set of chess >offerings on Personal Digital Assistants? > >I know of the following PDA chess games: > >* PocketChess for the Palm Pilot >* PocketChess for WinCE 2.0 devices >* Purple Software Chess for WinCE devices and Psion organizers >* Midnight Chess for WinCE devices >* Deep Green for Apple Newton MessagePads >* Psion Chess for the Psion organizers > >I would like to compare them in strength and features against the current crop >of portable chess computers (for example, from ICD): > >* Novag Jasper >* Novag Sapphire I/II >* Novag Amber >* Saitek Cosmos >* Saitek Bullet >* Saitek Aurora >* Saitek Avalon >* Excalibur Viper >* Excalibur Squire >* GK-2100 >* any others people may own > > >To start things off, I will compare the two things I own: > >+ Deep Green on an MP2000 (160MHz) >+ Novag Sapphire II (32 MHz) > >Deep Green has the most elegant grayscale 2D board, which has propelled it to >the top Newton application of the year on many software lists. The engine >however is primitive, and the extra oomf of the StrongArm processor still >doesn't bring it up to the level of the highly tuned Kittinger engine in the >SapphireII. > >Ian
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