Author: Uri Blass
Date: 05:27:46 01/29/02
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On January 29, 2002 at 07:44:37, Otello Gnaramori wrote: >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 ? The first choice was secret Deep Fritz that was based on Fritz7 engine. >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 ? I agree that Fritz7 is better but the point is that I do not think that they cannot use parallel Fritz7. The fact that they do not sell parallel Deep Fritz based on Fritz7 engine does not mean that they do not have a parallel version of Fritz7. Uri
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