is there a chessmater for palm? Anybody have link?

[mclane]

IMO you cannot relate CM with CTiger, Hiarcs or Genius.

CTiger is written in 68000 code and is running in the RISC palms as emulation, but reaches a high rating. even better Genius and the master in the palm league so far is hiarcs cause the later 2 use the ARM code for the chess engine.

IMO CM only runs as java program. not so strong like the 3 not mass market programs.

similar situation on mobiles. my genius uses the RISC operations of my mobile (Nokia 3650). i downloaded Shredder for that mobile, but the features were IMO horrible. the operations anti-intuitive and IMO it runs as java. now java is nice, but IMO slow.

[MikeB]

[/quote]That may be true,but I still prefer the PDA to the cellphone for chess purposes.The main reasons being screen size,batterylife and processing power.Quite often I use my PPC when wanting to quickly check a game of mine for blunders etc.Ever since Palm and Dell stopped making dedicated PDA machines I have seen the prices increase in online auctions for the latest PPC and Palm.[/quote]

I should have provided more detailed in my response or perhaps eve quailfied my response. Everything you wrote above is right on target.

Standalone PDAs are better for chess than cellphones:

More user friendly
Stronger
Better Programs
Bigger Screens
Faster Processors

and the lists goes on.

Also, I was surprised by the price holding power of the older PDAs especially on ebay. But as you pointed out , the plain old PDA is just about dead - nobody is making anymore them.

Thanks for your post - it's a more complete analysis.

Palm Regards,

Michael