Author: blass uri
Date: 03:59:54 09/21/99
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On September 20, 1999 at 22:19:11, Dave Gomboc wrote: >On September 19, 1999 at 07:22:35, Thorsten Czub wrote: > >>On September 19, 1999 at 05:44:59, blass uri wrote: >> >>>On September 19, 1999 at 05:07:30, Thorsten Czub wrote: >>> >>>>It was not me stealing or betraying , it was the other side. They steal >>>>source code from other machines >>> >>>I do not know about stealing source codes by chessbase. >> >>I did not say CB stole code from a machine. it was the redaktion >>of Computer-Schach und Spiele who did this and this is Frederic Friedel >>publisher. >> >>>If chess base really made dirty deals then they could have better results in >>>WCCC. >> >>Primergy servers are not as good as a good programmer having talent, time >>and a good team. you cannot beat this with dirty arrangements behind the scene >>to get the fastest machines. > >Extrapolating from the postings since Paderborn, it sounds to me like ChessBase >and Siemens might have an exclusive contract for hardware use and chess software >use, respectively. If this is the case, it doesn't sound dirty: indeed, rather >ho-hum. > >Paderborn entrant Parallel search? CPU >Fritz prototype yes 4 Xeons >Junior prototype yes 4 Xeons >Hiarcs prototype no 1 Xeon??? >Nimzo prototype no 1 Xeon??? > >Were the boxes for Hiarcs and Nimzo provided by Siemens? > >Dave I asked Amir Ban about it and he told me: "Siemens has been sponsoring ChessBase in several events. ChessBase started asking Siemens for their best two machines for Fritz & Junior three months before the event. Siemens managed to put two quad P-III 550 machines, and they were the first company to have these (Compaq here only had quad 500). The Siemens engineers worked hard to make the two machines available. Each of them costs about $10000 (my guess)." It is clear that Siemens had not 30 such machines to give out to every participant. My opinion is that in the future every software should get the best hardware that it can use and if it is impossible the participants with weaker hardware relative to hardware that they can use should get more time but I am against the attacks of thorsten against chessbase. Uri
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