Author: Bela Andrew Evans
Date: 10:54:19 09/09/98
How's this for a survey question: The next time you purchase a computer, would you be more likely to buy a computer with multi-processors if your favorite top commercial chess program (Rebel, Fritz, etc.) supported this feature? Another question: would you be more likely to buy a commercial chess program that supported multi-processors over one that did not? Personally, if Rebel or Fritz came out with support for multi-processors, I would probably go out and buy a 2 or 4 processor machine. Assuming a 4-processor machine gave you at least 3x speed improvement, that's most likely an extra-ply of search right there and another 30 to 60 ELO points. Ed Schroder recently was generous enough to answer my question about future multi-processor support. He said that (paraphrased) he would offer the feature when their was a market for it. I would like to encourage all the commercial programmers to CREATE the market for it. Bela
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