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Subject: Re: No, CM8000 because...

Author: John Dahlem

Date: 13:32:22 05/04/01

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On May 04, 2001 at 16:18:52, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On May 04, 2001 at 16:15:24, Vine Smith wrote:
>
>>Giving this program to Kramnik 3 months ahead of time will be to his
>>disadvantage. First, he'll waste lots of time figuring out how to get it to work
>>reasonably ("This isn't like Fritz at all! Where are the hash table settings?").
>>Then, he'll probably make the mistake of opening an analysis window, maybe the
>>mentor window too, and base his preparation on the engine running at 1/2 to 1/3
>>speed due to the 2 or 3 engines spawned by this process, unbeknownst to him.
>
>On the other hand, he'd probably post here with his questions under an assumed
>name and John Merlino would solve his problems in a jiffy.
>
>I wonder if the CM folks are going to do a multiple CPU version?


Ahh I highly doubt that, considering it's mainstream and there aren't many
mainstream users with duals, at least not now.



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