Author: Uri Blass
Date: 13:24:01 06/19/03
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On June 19, 2003 at 15:40:04, Mike S. wrote: >On June 19, 2003 at 14:35:35, Rolf Tueschen wrote: > >>Neither me. But look, Mike. The whole event in NY was a show event to make PR. >>Now ChessbAse tried to make PR with Kasparov say img that the Junior that played >>Kasparov came with it. Can you be so honest and declare that this is a cheat >>when the engine that played Kasparov does not come with it? It's ridiculous how >>you try to do your usual job as spin doctor for CheeseBase. Instead of saying >>that they are known for doing hot air. Just read their webpages, in spoecial the >>ones in English by Freddie. > >(I knew you'd inavoidably come with that spin doctor thing again.) > >I don't spin anything. It would have been, or actually is, easy for CB. to >advertise Junior 8 with something like "this is the single CPU version of the >latest Junior engine developement, *based on* the program that has drawn the >match against Kasparov." - Which it definetely is. New chess engine versions are >always based on the predecessors. If they would have written just that (only), >then I guess nobody would have demanded a match engine which was at an earlier >state of developement. > >But to announce the original match engine for the single CPU edition too, was >just a simple mistake, resulting from the fact that CB. wanted to offer *more* >to the customer (what they can do currently for the Deep Junior 8 version >only)... they took the same text as for the Deep version, obviously. But there >exists no single cpu version from the match engine(s) as we were informed. > >To call that a "cheat" is a wrong estimation of their integrity and their >intelligence at the same time. > >I have no clear opinion upon what has to be done now, if someone insists on that >additional engine he didn't get... you could see it either as a "free bonus" >which wasn't included in contrast to the advertising text as it was at first, or >as a part of the product itself (although, the product consists of all the usual >components for the usual price basically, like it's known from Fritz or Hiarcs). > >I wonder if it isn't possible to to "simply" permanently disable the SMP >function of the match engines... IOW, limit CPU= to 1 for that purpose, for a >single edition. But maybe that's not an easy adaption and would require >additional programming effort, I don't know... but I guess the normal single >version is created like that too, somehow. > >(But actually I didn't want to think about all that any longer... the ChessBase >staff will know what to do best.) > >Regards, >M.Scheidl Why it is important to limit the cpu to 1 when it is clear that almost no buyer of Junior8 is going to use more than one cpu? Uri
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