Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 07:19:20 06/22/98
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On June 22, 1998 at 02:37:40, Roland Pfister wrote: >I was on saturday at the townhall to watch Anand - Fritz and perhaps >meet some computer chess freaks. > >But the only persons I knew were the two Matthiasses from ChessBase >and Frederic Friedel. Frederic was busy photgraphing or videoing, so >I had a small talk with Matthias W. and he told me that Fritz played the >open too, at that moment having 5 points out of 5. Not bad. > >Then Mathias F. arrived, he was the one to operate Fritz. I asked him >how they did parallize Fritz and he answered "MTDF", because they >did not have the time to do something clever like Bob. This rises even more questions. How parallel is the fritz ENGINE. I'm not really interested in whether fritz can run parallel. Every program with several threads can, but parallellizing engine, that's the problem. Does the engine run parallel, or is it another publicity stunt? >He also told me that they had tried out the SMP-Crafty on that machine >and that he thinks that there are still bugs in the parallel code: he had >seen a PV ending in mate, but with a value of 2.xx ! >Roland
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