Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 20:54:14 04/09/03
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On April 09, 2003 at 09:41:23, Charles Worthington wrote:
>Hi Christophe! I love your Chess Tiger 15 program but I do have one request: My
>system is a Dual 3.06 Xeon and it sort of defeats the purpose of owning a Dual
>if I do not run multiprocessor capable chess programs on it. I own Deep Sjeng
>1.0, Deep Fritz 7, and Shredder 7.04 and I would LOVE a deep version of Chess
>Tiger to test on the Fritz server. The extra 85% in speed would add a real punch
>to Tigers strength. With Duals and Hyperthreading cpu's becoming more and more
>mainstream, people will be looking more and more to buy software which supports
>multiple threads. Have you made a Deep version of Tiger yet? And, if so, where
>can I find it? I will be the first in line to buy it.
>
>Sincerely, Charles
I could produce a commercial multiprocessor version of Chess Tiger some day, but
I still see no interest to do it at this time.
I don't even see an interest in the foreseeable future. I don't believe in
multiprocessing as a major trend.
I could even add that I don't believe in 64 bits computing either. For me the
future of computing in the next years is putting 32 bits single processor
computers everywhere (including your watch and your coffee machine).
I agree that a multiprocessor version would be significantly stronger, but on
the other hand I have many other high priority tasks that would benefit to a lot
more people, and for me it's important.
Example of such tasks:
* Chess Tiger 16
* A Linux version of Chess Tiger
* A native ARM version of Chess Tiger for Palm
* ...and a few more projects that I prefer to keep secret
So I'm very sorry to tell you that you should not hold your breath...
Christophe
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