Author: Gerd Isenberg
Date: 15:21:41 01/23/03
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On January 23, 2003 at 18:06:21, Christophe Theron wrote: >On January 23, 2003 at 16:45:23, Gerd Isenberg wrote: > >>On January 22, 2003 at 16:28:47, Robert Hyatt 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 >>> >>> >>>Yes. It was "brutus". It seemed to be doing about 1 ply deeper sometimes, >>>about the >>>same others. They claim it searches about 2.8M nodes per second in the >>>hardware, so >>>about 3M overall is the max, which is not a lot faster than my dual. The only >>>thing is >>>it uses a "Kure" book so it generally starts in a favorable position as I >>>normally run on >>>ICC with my "wide" book to provide variety. I would not play the same openings >>>in >>>(say) cct6 should I play them. :) But then again, I wouldn't play the openings >>>I played >>>against it against any reasonable opponent, so there you go. ;) >> >>Hi Bob, >> >>this FPGA-monster is able to do a rather sophisticated eval in parallel, so i >>guess the "quality" of the nodes is rather huge. IMHO Chrilly's Brutus or other >>FPGA-approaches will dominate the scene during the next years, considering that >>FPGA hardware has much more potential for further improvement than general >>purpose processors. More speed and more knowledge. And of course one may use >>multiple FPGAs in some parallel framework - puh. >> >>Gerd > > > >And that's a sure way to grab approximately 0.001% of the chess software market. > >I'm scared. :) > > > > Christophe Hi Christophe, Hehe, i mean domination in further WCCC events. There is no WMCCC anymore. Gerd
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