Author: Frank Phillips
Date: 03:11:07 07/04/04
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On July 04, 2004 at 05:47:34, Rolf Tueschen wrote: >On July 04, 2004 at 03:47:50, Frank Phillips wrote: > >>On July 04, 2004 at 02:11:26, Omid David Tabibi wrote: >> >>> >>>Live broadcast (games, video, and audio) with commentary by GM Boris Alterman at >>>PlayChess server. The free client can be downloaded from >>>http://www.playchess.com >> >>Any relay for those without MS OS ? > > >Certainly not. Everything what ChessBase has created was always connected to the >always actually most advanced hardware or software development of Intel and MS. >So often you couldn't use the new version of ChessBase if you either didn't >update to more memory space or say WIN 95. For example you can't use Fritz 8 or >ChessBase 8 without WIN 98 or XP. That has nothing to do with pure chess. It's >sometimes a thing of 3D (therefore XP & DivX etc.) or such. Also the engines >formerly were adapted to Intel. Only after it turned out that AMD was even >better for chess purposes the authors tuned their code for AMD too. > >I don't know if one should criticise this trend. It's simply a marketing and >economical neccessity. Viewed from the perspective of business. > >Just try to log on ICC, they offer also live transmissions of the games and much >more in their rooms. This why I asked: there is no obvious indication that ICC are relaying the event. Are you sure they are?
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