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Subject: Re: Info on Brutus from chessbase

Author: Tony Werten

Date: 03:10:38 03/21/02

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On March 20, 2002 at 14:27:32, Torstein Hall wrote:

>On March 20, 2002 at 12:41:50, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:
>
>>On March 20, 2002 at 12:29:59, Jonas Cohonas wrote:
>>
>>>I would gladly pay 400$+ for a finished version of this hardware/engine or (how
>>>much it will cost eventually) if what they say are true.
>>
>>Hmm, it depends on how good they can get it, of course :)
>>
>>2-3M nps is not very impressive with a small evaluation
>>(state of the chip now)
>>
>>--
>>GCP
>
>Can they not do it somehow the "Deep Blue way" also using the PC as evaluator
>and having the extra chip search fast and doing a small eval?

Brutus does it this way. The chip seaches the last 2 or 3 ply (depending if it's
at an odd or even ply) and then evaluates. The result is send back to the
software wich does the main search. ( at about 60-70 Kn/s) This means the chip
basicly does 2-3 Mn/s

Tony

>
>Torstein



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