Author: Uri Blass
Date: 17:39:22 07/02/04
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On July 02, 2004 at 20:31:54, Derek Paquette wrote: >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 It is not an easy job to change a program that is designed for a single processor to use 2 processors. It is not completely illogical not to do that job because customers usually use one processor. Uri
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