Author: Anson T J
Date: 05:24:36 06/05/03
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On June 05, 2003 at 08:12:31, ludicrous wrote: >That was my primary impression. > >However, good thing I read somewhere here at the forum that says that ONLY the >deep junior 8 cd includes the engines which played Kasparov. > >Junior 8 turns out to be only a single engine program (8.0.0.1) > >Regards, Thats good for you but every owner of Junior 8 has a case because written on the back of the Junior 8 box is (and I quote) "With Junior 8 you get two chess engines. One is the original engine that played in the Kasparov match, the second is the most recent, fully developed version." As the product only has one engine yet promised two engines on the box Chessbase owes the customer either the second engine or a refund. Its very sad that this mistake was make. It sounded fishy to me because the engine that played vs Kasparov was obviously an SMP version and Junior 8 was expected to be a single cpu version. I do think it would be in the best interest of Chessbase and Amir Ban to force the Deep Junior 8 ZX and YY engines to 1 cpu versions and distribute to the owners of the Junior 8 package as (Junior 8 ZX, YY) along with an apology and explanation. I can only speculate but I don't think Amir Ban is responsible for the marketing of Junior 8 but I think giving all Junior 8 owners single cpu equivalents of the Deep Junior 8 ZX and YY products would be the sensible and correct thing to do. Also I think the processor affinity bug (http://www.talkchess.com/forums/1/message.html?299350) should be dealt with ASAP as it makes it very difficult to match Junior 8 engines in engine matches on Dual CPU systems. -Anson
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