Author: Ernst A. Heinz
Date: 01:58:48 05/27/98
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On May 26, 1998 at 23:53:22, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On May 26, 1998 at 21:25:13, Mark Young wrote: > >>Anand vs Fritz in Frankfurt >> >>A spectacular event will be held on June 20, 1998 at 8 p.m. in the City >>Hall of Frankfurt-Zeilsheim. A special multiprocessor verseion of >>Fritz5, runing on a Siemens Primergy, will take on the world's number >>two player in a rapid chess match. The match comes at the end of the >>strongest tournament ever staged, the "Siemens Nixdorf Giants", with >>Garry Kasparov, Vishy Anand, Vladimir Kramnik and Anatoly Karpov (June >>17 to 19). The Siemens Nixdorf Primergy 460 is commercially available >>server with a dual Pentium II board with two 333 Mhz CPUs. Each has 256 >>Mbyte of RAM, which is useful, since at the expected speed Fritz will >>fill 200 to 300 MB of transposition tables between its moves. There will >>be live coverage of all events by the Lost Boys >>(www.lostcity.nl/chess/ccs/frankfurt.html), with daily wrap-ups and >>games on this web site (www.chessbase.com). >> >>From www.chessbase.com/news.htm > > >would be interesting to see who/how/what they've done with the parallel >search, since none of 'em have been "practicing" parallel search. I >have >an idea. :) Bob, You are obviously speculating that Frans Morsch does similar things as you do in your "SMP-Crafty". This is certainly quite probable. During the 1997 WMCC in Paris I talked a good deal with Frans who is a really interesting person. He openly admits to have learnt a lot while studying the source code of "Crafty". Moreover, he was very interested in faster machines like Alphas, x86-SMPs and future SMPs-on-a-chip. He suspected other commercial authors (especially Chrilly Donninger) to be actively working on multi-threaded (i.e. SMP-ready) versions of their chess programs, too. Maybe he therefore started with "SMP-Fritz" before your public "SMP-Crafty" became available and has done something completely different? Unfortunately, Frans never tells much about the internal details of his chess software. But both possibilities seem to be equally likely. =Ernst=
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