Author: Derek Paquette
Date: 17:31:54 07/02/04
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On July 02, 2004 at 20:15:39, Uri Blass wrote: >On July 02, 2004 at 19:48:29, Rodney Topor wrote: > >>I apologise for asking this question which has probably been asked and answered >>before, but... >> >>Is there any common reason why several strong programs such as Chessmaster, >>Chess Tiger, HIARCS and Ruffian are not competing in the WCCC this week? Their >>presence would have have made it an even more exciting event. >> >>Rodney > >Yes > >The reason is that it is expensive to waste money on such events >espacially when you have a commercial program that it's name is not Junior or >Fritz so based on history you have no chance to get a match against Kasparov or >Kramnik. > >I believe that one of the programs that you mention could have small chances to >win the event but all these programs do not support more than 1 processor and >it reduce their chances. > >I believe their probability to win the tournament is less than 5% and if we talk >about money with probability of less than 5% to win it is a bad deal from >commercial reasons because even if you win you do not get much for it(you only >can mention that you are the world champion in advertisments and you will not >get for it 20 times the price that you payed for the world championship). > >Uri I am not a programmer, but is it significantly harder to proggram a program to use more than 1 processor? i mean if you are in the business of programs it seems completely illogical not to make a program that can use more than 1 cpu
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