Fritz on Nintendo DS.

[Cubeman]

I see that Chessbase is soon to launch Fritz for the handheld DS.They have already released Fritz Chester and friends.I wonder how strong they can make it on the limited hardware of the DS console.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Deep-Silver-Fri ... _pr_sims_t

[AdminX]

But how did you miss the Nintendo Wii ....



http://www.amazon.co.uk/Deep-Silver-Fri ... 15&sr=1-11

PS: Where is the PSP version??

[Sean Evans]

Does anyone have an opinion if investing in a Nintendo DS for playing chess only is worth while?

I know of Chessmaster and now Fritz....here are some others I have bookmarked~!

http://www.vonloesch.de/dschess
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000RF ... dp_product
http://www.amazon.com/Clubhouse-Games-N ... _sim_vg_17
http://www.pocketgamer.co.uk/r/DS/feature.asp?c=4144
http://www.play-asia.com/paOS-13-71-ba- ... -2ox6.html
http://ds.qj.net/FewChessDS-v0-1-more-c ... aid/122608
http://ds.qj.net/ChessNET-v1-0-2-more-o ... aid/118056
http://ds.qj.net/DSChess-v0-4-now-with- ... aid/116632
http://www.amazon.com/Chess-Crusade-Nin ... B0017UBVLY
http://www.gamespot.com/ds/puzzle/schach/index.html
http://www.gamefaqs.com/portable/ds/home/943548.html
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Deep-Silver-Fri ... _pr_sims_t

[Robert Weck]

Does anyone have an opinion if investing in a Nintendo DS for playing chess only is worth while?

i would prefer a PPC with PocketFritz 3...


Robert

[Cubeman]

I too rather a PPC with PF3.I can't imagine a Nintendo DS being very powerful.A 2nd hand PPC costs less than a new Nintendo DS.I think the childrens version Chesster and Friends will sell more.

[glorfindel]

According to wikipedia, DS's cpu is: one 67 MHz ARM946E-S and one 33 MHz ARM7TDMI. It is a bit old and weak compared to modern processors. I think most new cell phones have much faster processors. So the engine would not be very strong, besides according to your links, Fruit 2.1 is about 2270 elo on this hardware. It would be a good opponent, and I am sure Fritz will have a beautiful GUI, but not very good for analysis or for having a database with many games stored in it.

If you add what you spend for a DS and for Fritz chess DS and then double this amount, and you can wait 2 months, you have another option.

There is a new portable gaming console, called Pandora, with a faster CPU: 600 MHz OMAP3530 ARM Cortex-A8 (32 Bit) and 256MB Ram. I think it would be more appropriate, because one can compile all the free (open source) chess engines for it and probably also the Scid database. It has not been released yet, but I intend to ask someone to run a crafty or a glaurung benchmark when it is, so that we could see how fast (and strong) they are on this hardware.

Then again there is this story about $199 netbooks coming this summer, which makes you wonder if it worth spending money on the previous two.
http://www.notebooks.com/2009/01/07/new ... xy-design/

[Sean Evans]

Then again there is this story about $199 netbooks coming this summer, which makes you wonder if it worth spending money on the previous two.http://www.notebooks.com/2009/01/07/new ... xy-design/

The netbook seems to be only for web use, no programs like computer chess.

[glorfindel]

The netbook seems to be only for web use, no programs like computer chess.

I don't think so. It has a CPU, RAM, some kind of permanent data storage (not mentioned there), and it will be running linux. It is a full featured computer and you can do anything you want with it.

[revengeska]

According to IGN, it'll be coming out for Playstation 3 as well. With what I've heard about the Playstation 3 hardware, we could have quite an interesting test.

[Sean Evans]

According to IGN, it'll be coming out for Playstation 3 as well. With what I've heard about the Playstation 3 hardware, we could have quite an interesting test.

Test? between who?