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Subject: Re: I wonder which FPGAs Dr. Chrilly used for Brutus ?

Author: Jorge Pichard

Date: 05:24:07 03/04/02

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On March 04, 2002 at 06:28:12, Gerd Isenberg wrote:

>Thanks to all participiants and specially to Ulf Lorenz for perfect organization
>and the great Hardware support from the University of Paderborn.
>
>Congrats to Stefan, Shredder won the IPCCC for the fourth time, i think. The
>strong Fritz close behind, congrats also to Frans and Mathias and to Uli and
>Daniel to archive the third place with Comet. A strong field - very exciting
>games, e.g. Gandalf (the unlucky) against Shredder.
>
>As usual the tournament atmosphere in Paderborn was very kind and friendly. It's
>very difficult for Ulf to organize the tournament and to prepare P.ConNerS. It's
>a huge disadvantage to have no original test environment. Ulf, Head up, next
>time will be better.
>
>I also feel with Stefans Matador. Very unlucky - some hopefull positions but no
>success. Matador is not so weak as the results suggest.
>
>Very interesting to meet Chrilly Donninger and Alex Kure. I believe Brutus has a
>great future - FPGAs (Field Programmable Gate Arrays) seem to be very promising
>for computer chess, e.g. doing a complex eval in 5 cycles or so.
>
>best regards,
>Gerd

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