Author: Uri Blass
Date: 22:48:53 09/26/05
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On September 27, 2005 at 01:35:46, Lance Perkins wrote: >On September 27, 2005 at 00:32:32, Robert Hollay wrote: > >>On September 26, 2005 at 23:46:59, angela milazzo wrote: >> >>>Dear Sirs; >>> >>> Are you talking about a dongle? If so I nor my friends will buy your product. >>>I will not attach such a device to mine or any one else's machine, they are >>>hideous. You are just making it tougher on your legitimate customers, Crackers >>>will crack that dongle despite whatever fool has convinced Fabien otherwise. >>> >>> >>> You know I have been downloading and playing the Winboard engines for many >>>years. I am appalled by the fact that as soon as a program takes second place in >>>some tournament it immediately goes commercial. For how many years was Crafty >>>the number one program and Bob remained freeware. I and some other users will >>>stick with the current freeware engines knowing that by this time next year some >>>other new engine will be the one to beat. >>> >>>Thanks, >>>Angela >> >> Nobody forces you to buy commercial ones. I'm using only freeware engines too. >>Still, I would buy Fruit just to help Fabien in further development, >>but I cannot afford investments of not vital importance now. >>Btw, I have a feeling that Fruit2.2 is the "No.1" engine today, it's second >>place is only due to the hardware differences in the WCCC tournament. >> >>Robert > >I think Zappa is the Number 1 chess engine today, as it demonstrated in the last >WCCC. Not Fruit. The difference is not hardware. Its sofware. The Fruit software >does not know how to use multiple processors. The Zappa software does. Lets give >Fruit and Zappa their own 16-cpu machines to run on - they now run on identical >hardware. Which do you think will win most games? > >Lets say you have an engine with very smart search and well-tuned evaluation. >But you wrote that in Z80 assembly. The best Z80 processor tops at 16mhz. Is >that the best engine? That thing will get trashed by engines with simpler search >and eval but is written for x86 architecture and runs on 3Ghz machines. There is a difference. no customer or almost no customer is using 16mhz machine. A lot of customers are using machines with single processor so from the point of view of many customers Fruit may be the best engine. Uri
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