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Subject: Re: Tiger SMP: why ?

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 01:53:49 05/01/01

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On May 01, 2001 at 04:33:28, Tony Werten wrote:

>It's already a long discussion but one thing is unclear to me.
>
>Why does GT have to be smp to participate  in the challenge for Kramnik
>tournament ? Last dutch championship Fritz participated on a dual machine and
>finished third. Tiger won the tournament with 2 points more, the King (also
>single processor) finished second.

Yes but Fritz used a dual and not a 8 processor machine.

>
>So why exclude a single processor program that has proven to be capable of
>beating multi processor programs ?

Single processor program is capable pf beating multi processor in one game but
the difference between programs is not so big that it can be better than 8
processor machine in a long match.

Another point is that the sponsors want to support multi processor system so
they cannot use single processor programs for that purpose.


Uri



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