Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 18:26:20 09/25/01
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On September 25, 2001 at 21:02:41, Slater Wold wrote: >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. Hey! They didn't say *WHICH* Russian chess players did they? ;-) I suspect if you line them all up, eventually, the machine will definitely beat one of them. So, the saw cuts both ways -- we all have an armload of wood -- and the flames remind us of yester-year when grandma was cooking on the old wood stove.
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