Author: Tony Werten
Date: 06:24:19 04/19/00
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On April 19, 2000 at 08:57:58, blass uri wrote: >On April 19, 2000 at 08:42:23, Gordon Rattray wrote: > >>On April 19, 2000 at 04:49:28, Tony Werten wrote: >> >>>On April 19, 2000 at 02:39:21, Mark Schreiber wrote: >>> >>>>I also agree, this is great for computer chess fans. We need more strong >>>>tournaments to allow computers. Then we can get more accurate rating. This is a >>>>win for everybody. Players make more money. The program gets publicity. What >>>>hardware will Fritz use? I think Fritz has a good chance to win. >>> >>>It's using a quad. That's about anything I could find out yet. >> >> >>The following questions are due to my limited understanding... I presume by a >>"quad" you mean a 4 processor machine? I thought that Deep Juniour was the only >>program (commercial) that could take advantage of such an architecture?! So, >>why run Fritz on it? > >Because it is not the commercial version. > >Fritz ran in a quad also in the last WCCC almost one year ago. Didn't know that. Did know it ran on a Dual at the dutch champ. > >The commercial version does not run in a quad not because the programmers cannot >take advantage of a quad but probably because the customers are not interested >in programs that can use a quad because they have no quad. > >There is another commercial program that can take advantage of a quad(Diep) but >if you are interested in buying a program with a quad then Deep Junior is >probably better. That's still the question. I understood there has been some rewriting on Fritz and it now achieves a 3 fold (effective, I presume) speedup on a quad. I don't know much about multi-processors, but this sounded ok. By the way, if you wondered about the addition of SSS*. It has nothing to do with the SSS-algoritm being dug up again. It just that the three sponsoring companies start with an S. Tony > >Uri
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