Author: Uri Blass
Date: 09:59:45 06/18/03
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On June 18, 2003 at 12:51:41, Joachim Rang wrote: >On June 18, 2003 at 12:47:53, Russell Reagan wrote: > >>On June 18, 2003 at 11:57:04, Terry McCracken wrote: >> >>>Since there simply is no single processor >>>version of that engine we will not be able to provide you with a fix/upgrade. >> >>I don't understand. They are saying that Deep Junior 8 will not even run on a >>single CPU machine, but Junior 8 will? I've never heard of software behaving >>like that (could be true though, I guess). If Deep Junior 8 (the one that played >>Kasparov) will run on a single CPU machine (even if it is a bit slower due to >>being multi-threaded), then allowing those who purchased Junior 8 to download >>Deep Junior 8 would seem like a very nice solution. >> >>Terry (and others), would you feel that this would be a good solution (assuming >>that DJ8 will work on a single CPU machine)? > >DJ8 will work on a single CPU machine, but will also work on a DUAL-Machine. So >giving away DJ8 to all purchasers of J8 will be similiar to sell DJ8 for the >price of J8 for Chessbase. Not exactly because if they give only the version that played against kasparov then it is not the full content of the Deep Junior8 CD. The buyers of Junior8 are people who do not use more than one processor so I do not think that giving them DJ8 is similiar to selling DJ8 for the price of J8. Chessbase can say that they will give it only to people who already ordered Junior8 if they are afraid that less people are going to buy DJ8 in the future. I believe that 99% of the people who bought Junior8 do not have more than one processor to use and will not buy DJ8 even if it is going to be at the same price as Junior8(Maybe today they will buy Deep Junior8 for the additional engine but in the past the assumption was that Deep Junior8 does not mean more engines than Junior8) Uri
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