Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 06:34:31 09/17/99
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On September 17, 1999 at 02:49:06, Dave Gomboc wrote: >On September 16, 1999 at 20:29:21, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On September 16, 1999 at 18:41:30, Thorsten Czub wrote: >> >>>On September 16, 1999 at 13:04:42, blass uri wrote: >>> >>>>On September 16, 1999 at 10:54:08, Thorsten Czub wrote: >>>><snipped> >>>>>Also we know that this company does not WANT to give same chances to all >>>>>(example:paderborn championship). >>>> >>>> >>>>If you mean to the fact that Junior,Nimzo,Hiarcs,Fritz played in WCCC then I do >>>>not see something wrong with it. >>> >>>>Uri >>> >>>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? > >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 there were at least a few parallel programs at the WCCC. Diep ran on my xeon. Ferret on Bruce's where he could have had a 20% faster box (quad 550's rather than his quad 450). But the point is that no one should influence a vendor wanting to supply hardware to entrants. And nearly _every_ entrant would have been faster on a 550 xeon cpu with 1 or 2 megs of L2 cache than they would be on any other pentium available at the time... I have no idea whether this happened or not, but it would be very sad if it turns out to be true. I know someone over there and I'm going to ask, just to see what I can find out about it. This person is placed high enough that he might have a chance to find out what went on...
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