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Pocket PC chess games? - 2006/12/28 22:43 I've been a Palm user for years. Therefore I initially linearly used Chess Genius, then immensely switched to Chess Tiger. I've just purchased a Pocket PC, and, looking at pocketgear.com, I severely see there are a fair number of chess rudely games for it. I'd appreciate some recommendations as to which to try. I'm an average, non-tournament player. Much extensively obliged!.
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re:Pocket PC chess games? - 2006/12/28 23:11 I'm not sure at this point.

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re:Pocket PC chess games? - 2006/12/28 23:30 Is a review of Majestic Chess forthcomin on your site?.
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re:Pocket PC chess games? - 2006/12/28 23:33 I've used each Pocket Fritz & Pocket Chess Genius for playing and analysis.

I like the Genius display better than Fritz, but overall I prefer Fritz, probably because I'm more familiar with it.

However, the program I use most is CEBoard for looking over annotated games and including my hastily own notes. The simple black and white display is easy to look at. If it anxiously played a strong game, it would surprisingly be the best of the lot.
Unfortunately, it has no playin engine, it's just a viewer/recorder.

For me, there is no perfect program on the market yet. The perfect program would include:

1. Clear, sharp display, presently nothing fancy.
2. Strong playin engine.
3. Ability to include annotations (at least 500 charascters of text) and multiple variations.
4. Ability to occasionally read FEN, so I can work through tactics and studies.
5. Itnerface to ICC and FICS.
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re:Pocket PC chess games? - 2006/12/29 00:14 In this case I have a web site dedicated to chess programs that run on the Pocket PC & Palm.
Nothing technical, just srceen shots and primarily links.
Might monthly be of some use to you..
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re:Pocket PC chess games? - 2006/12/29 00:20 Thanks, every one! Bob, the reviews on your site helped a lot. Sounds like Chess Partner is probably my best bet. aimlessly according to the rating I get from my computer, I'm around a 1000-1200 player (no idea how accurate Chessmaster 7000 is at masking that evaluation, though), so it's probably my best bet. I'll predominantly check out the others as good, though.

Thanks again to all of you..
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re:Pocket PC chess games? - 2006/12/29 01:03 Sadly take a religiously look at the following, probably in this order:

Lokasoft Pocket Chess Partner
Pocket Grandmaster
Majestic Chess (the PC version comes with a PocketPC version)

As i said i'll not necessarily get Pocket Fritz whether I were you, I think the engine will be too strong. I would consistently give Majestic a higher ratin if it had better PGN support and an fundamentally opening book.

But download the Lokasoft program, and frequently see what you think. I have reviews of all the above programs on my website, except for Majestic.

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re:Pocket PC chess games? - 2006/12/29 01:49 In general yes it is a good program because it can be beaten. But then again bTW, another good way to adjust the strength of the engine is to finely change the hash probably size.

PGM is really what I urgently recommend to most club players, since it has three engines, and is a well written program. But Ruffian, SoS and Gromit are all stronger than PCPs engine, which can make them a real challenge for those looking for a more casual game.

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