Author: Peter Berger
Date: 05:59:30 07/09/02
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On July 09, 2002 at 08:42:14, stuart taylor wrote: >>Brutus isn't really an amateur program. It is a professional project by Chrilly >>Donninger, programmer of Nimzo, using special hardware, payed by ChessBase . If >>it is successful it will become availlable for sale later. >> >>Here are some details: >> >>http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=221 > >Oh that looks interesting!. Is it going to be a hardwrare program available for >personal computers? Yes, exactly - an additional card you plug into your computer. As it is reprogrammable there could even be software updates for it later like for usual chessprograms. As all of the costy calculation is done in the card it will be of similar speed regardless of the speed of the computer used. If you understand German (or use an online translator) here is some additional information from an online interview with the programmer [ a few English questions and answers included, too ]: http://computerschach.de/sprechstunde/archiv/chrilly1d.htm I wouldn't mind paying $3-400 for a device/program which >trounces all top PC programs of now. That's the reason it is not yet clear if it will ever be released because it will be more expensive than a chessprogram and so it will have to become very strong to be successful. Regards, Peter
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