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Subject: Re: Live broadcast (games, video, and audio) with GM commentary at PlayC

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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