Author: Terry McCracken
Date: 21:52:03 04/09/03
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On April 09, 2003 at 23:54:14, Christophe Theron wrote: >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 think you're incorrect here, I see 64 bit computing common, in less than 5 years. Terry > >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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