Author: Thorsten Czub
Date: 05:04:22 09/17/99
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On September 17, 1999 at 02:49:06, Dave Gomboc wrote: >>>CB manipulated the sponsor of the championship (SIEMENS) not to give ALL >>>participants a primergy server, due to the fact that THEY wanted to have >>>this advantages for THEIR OWN programs. >>>So they did not want all partipants to have the best machines, they wanted >>>this advantage for themselves. >>>Nice guys. >>>Good that they lost ! >> >> >>This is a pretty alarming statement, and it is one I have heard once before >>from a _different_ source. If it is true, my opinion of ChessBase drops lower >>than a snake's belly. >> >>Anybody have any more information? I have heard this from many sources too. i do trust these sources. one source comes from cb itself. and in my opinion it is another scandal how ONE company tries to INFLUENCE ICCA chamionships to their own advantage. They stopped the sponsor to give all participants BEST machines possible and instead canalized these BEST parallel pc's "available" to their own parallel programs junior/fritz. Together with their "behaviour" in paderborn i can onnly say that i find it ashaming. >Exactly how much benefit will be derived from serial chess programs running on a >quad-cpu Primergy server? "Infinitesimal" is the word that comes to mind. Even >if it were true, it hardly matters from a _performance_ standpoint, which makes >the alleged request rather odd, wouldn't you say? > >Dave i am NOT your opinion dave. junior and fritz had very fast machines. i am sure some other programmers, e.g. shredder (stefan had a parallel version ready) would have profit also from getting this machines. These machines were really fast as we have all seen in paderborn with our own eyes making them 1.600.000 NPS or arround 1.000.000 meanwhile other programs had less NPS due to slower machines. Stefan decided to use a normal single CPU PC. because he had the strongest program (IMO before the match and still afterwards) he had good chances and won. so in the end the machine was not this important. but cb dominated in the first 5 rounds, maybe because of these machines.
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