Computer Chess Club Archives


Search

Terms

Messages

Subject: Re: To Uri

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 13:29:47 02/18/03

Go up one level in this thread


On February 18, 2003 at 16:21:04, Charles Worthington wrote:

>Actually Uri I think chessbase only claimed that Deep Fritz 7 was stronger than
>Fritz 7 on a single processor system. I do not think they intended to claim that
>it was stronger on one processor than on a dual.

Chessbase sent Deep Fritz7 to the ssdf to test.
They have a reason and the reason is that they know that it is better even when
you use only one processor.

I did not buy Fritz7 but I have a friend who bought DF7 because it is better
than F7 and he has not more than one processor.

I bought DF6 and not F6 for the same reason.


 Chessbase specifically
>advertises an 85% speed increase from single to dual cpus. And, in fact, Deep
>Junior 7 admits to being 5% weaker on a single cpu system than Junior 7.

Yes

This is the reason that I did not purchase Deep Junior7 and this is the reason
that the ssdf did not test Deep Junior 7.

 That
>alone tells me that it was designed with dual processors in mind. Perhaps not
>all users can afford dual processor units and most honestly don't need them
>playing human vs. machine. I am speaking strictly from the standpoint of someone
>who purchases chess software to play machine vs. machine. Now that Fritz 8 is
>released there is no reason why someone with a single cpu system should pay 99$
>for deep fritz 7 when they can buy fritz 8 for half the cost.

I agree that now there is no reason to buy DF7 and not Fritz8.
The reason was in the past.

Uri



This page took 0 seconds to execute

Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700

Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.