Author: Thomas Mayer
Date: 08:49:12 06/19/03
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Hi Mogens, > After all, they presumedly planned to make some money on the Deep version as > well. From the view of chicken logic it seems surprising that anyone could > possibly think that Chessbase would be willing to supply a Deep and not-so- > Deep version of the engine at half the price. Mainly because it would > obviously undermine the sale of the purely Deep version. No matter how > improved it might be. My grasp of legal matters isn't nearly sufficient to > evaluate culpability on behalf of Chessbase. But there seems to be a good > deal of customer stupidity involved as well. If it looks like a bargain, > check it again. well, I can't see any customer stupidity. And ChessBase is doing it already - there is a Shredder 7.SE which is sold for a little bit more then half of the price of the full Shredder 7 package - the difference is, that you can't change the number of threads so it is not possible to use it as an SMP-Engine. Also there are not so many engine-parameters and the Shredder 7 classic GUI is missing. But you get a Multi-Media CD as goodie. -> I think it would be quite easy to produce out of the Kasparov-Deep Junior engine something that does not support SMP. (Or at least does not offer you support of SMP) Greets, Thomas
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