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Subject: Re: Brutus, I think

Author: Frank Phillips

Date: 14:23:42 01/22/03

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On January 22, 2003 at 17:19:14, Peter Fendrich wrote:

>On January 22, 2003 at 15:09:43, Frank Phillips wrote:
>
>>On January 22, 2003 at 13:17:29, Matthew Hull wrote:
>>
>>>On January 22, 2003 at 12:57:40, Frank Phillips wrote:
>>>
>>>>I stumbled across a couple of interesting games by something called Suturb
>>>>against Crafty on ICC.
>>>>
>>>>There is no hardware information in its finger notes, but it seemed to be
>>>>outsearching Crafty (on dual 2.6GHz Xeon I guess), by a 1 or 2 ply at times.
>>>>
>>>>Is this the gate array chess processor thing from chessbase.
>>>>
>>>>Frank
>>>
>>>I would guess from the name that it is Brutus (spelled backwards), which is
>>>known to be a program designed for massive parrallel calculation via special
>>>chess chips, I think.
>>>
>>>Matt
>>
>>Well spotted.  I must watch more Harry Potter films.
>>
>>Frank
>
>Is there any magic around here?
>/Peter

Some of the strange names are recognisable if read from right to left.



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