Author: Uri Blass
Date: 13:12:28 06/19/03
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On June 19, 2003 at 13:33:11, Mogens Larsen wrote: >On June 19, 2003 at 11:49:12, Thomas Mayer wrote: > >Hey Thomas. > >>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) > >The difference is that it would be folly for a company to modify an outdated >version for no extra cost for selling a few extra copies. Your example is a >separate product of the latest engine. Presumably to reach a wider audience with >the Shredder brand. That makes sense from a commercial viewpoint. As for >customer stupidity. Like I said before, the idea of purchasing the latest >single-cpu version of J8 and receive a slightly outdated SMP version for free is >absurd. I see no absurd in it. The thing can run on single processor so people could expect getting a single processor version of it. If chessbase cannot provide single processor version of the program then they have to provide the SMP version. If they do not do it then it is a good reason for the customers to boycott chessbase. Uri
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