Author: Slater Wold
Date: 18:02:41 09/25/01
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On September 25, 2001 at 20:53:51, Dann Corbit wrote: >On September 25, 2001 at 20:13:53, Albert Silver wrote: >[snip] >>I'll argue with it. I doubt very much Deep Junior outsells plain ol' Junior. I >>also doubt very much that Deep Shredder outsold Shredder. I believe (no numbers >>unfortunately) they have sold less than Hiarcs, Tiger, and Nimzo for example. I >>am only speaking of the 'Deep' versions and not their single-cpu brothers that >>do well. The only exception I can think of _might_ (no numbers unfortunately) be >>Deep Fritz as it not only is an SMP version of Fritz 6, but also an improvement >>of it. > >I rather suspect that soon everyone will have "Deep" versions, including >ChessMaster and the rest. Of course, on most PC's they will run a bit *slower* >than non-SMP versions. > >Reason: >Marketing hype -- since those marketing SMP versions will be crowing about how >great they are, and since "Deep" sounds like "Deep Blue" [which the average user >knows is strong enough to beat Kasparov] lots of people will flock to buy them >despite the fact that they will not improve performance with it. > >I suspect that most people who buy it will have no idea that it requires >multiple CPU's for a performance boost. Speaking of which........ Seen the new IBM commercial? They make the insinuation that their new PIV models can beat, and I quote, "...russian chess players...." Comparing a PIV to Deep Blue is like comparing a Yugo to John Force's Funny Car. They both have an engine, and wheels........but that's where the comparison stops. Slate
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