Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 08:52:51 09/21/99
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On September 21, 1999 at 06:59:54, blass uri wrote: >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 Thanks for checking this out, Uri. I'm also against the attacks you mentioned. Dave
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