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Subject: Re: PDA's vs. Portable Dedicated Chess Computers

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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