Author: Otello Gnaramori
Date: 04:44:37 01/29/02
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On January 29, 2002 at 06:54:07, Uri Blass wrote: >On January 29, 2002 at 04:45:07, Otello Gnaramori wrote: > >>If the match between Fritz and Kramnik will be held in October, I'm wondering on >>which program will be against Mr. Kramnik. >>The first chosen was Deep Fritz for its multiprocessor capabilities (can run on >>8 cpu's powered machine) , but meanwhile Fritz7 was out with a brand new >>powerful engine, though I'm not sure about its multiprocessor features of the >>latest... anybody knows ? >> >>w.b.r. >>Otello > >The first choice was not the commercial Deep Fritz and I think that you are >wrong to assume that chessbase is going to use something that is commercial. > 1) Which was the first choice ? 2) Why do not use something commercial since it can be advantaging from the incomes point of view... >I guess that multiprocessor capability is not important for 90% of the users so >chessbase has no reason to invest on commercial version of Fritz7 with more than >one processor. > So probably they will go for Deep Fritz if a multiprocessor machine will be used. > >I also remember that people complained about Deep Fritz and claimed that for >some reason it is only slightly faster with 2 processors when Junior and >Shredder earns more speed from 2 processors so I believe that chessbase were >right when they did not release a multi processor version of Fritz(If they can >do it only 20 or 30% faster with 2 processors then there are not going to be >many people who are really interested in buying a multi-processor version of >Fritz). > >Uri But don't you think that Fritz7 is reasonably better than Deep Fritz engine, so what is the rational to use an inferior engine though if it's multiprocessor capable ? w.b.r. Otello
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