Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 09:27:43 04/10/03
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On April 10, 2003 at 11:22:44, Charles Worthington wrote:
>On April 09, 2003 at 23:54:14, Christophe Theron wrote:
>
>>On April 09, 2003 at 09:41:23, Charles Worthington wrote:
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>>>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
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>>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...
>>
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>> Christophe
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>Sound reasoning.....but you can't blame a guy for trying :-)
>
>Charles
Naturally. I understand people who want to have the most powerful computer and
the most powerful chess program, but I tend to focus on mainstream hardware. I
even love to see my program running well on outdated hardware. :)
Christophe
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