Author: Joachim Rang
Date: 09:51:46 07/12/02
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On July 12, 2002 at 12:39:39, pavel wrote: >On July 12, 2002 at 12:33:30, Jorge wrote: > >>On July 12, 2002 at 12:27:39, Jorge Pichard wrote: >> >>>I evaluated the opponents that Shredder and Junior 7 faced and it seems as >>>Brutus had the best performance based on the level of opponents that is faced. >>> >>>Pichard. >> >>Brutus is Nimzo8- right? If it is, Nimzo8 is the strongest of all the Nimzos at >>the moment. >> >>jorge > >We don't know if it is Nimzo. >Most likely It is Nimzo ported on special-purpose hardware. >I doubt He would write another commercial level program from scratch; one is >hard enough ;). > >cheers >pavs No Brutus is completely written from the scratch. It has nothing to do with Nimzo, neither on hardware (Brutus uses some special chip called FPGA), nor software. It is only made by the same programmer, who probably uses his experiences while programming Nimzo for programming Brutus. But the code is completely different because of the different hardware. There is a nice interview with Chrilly Dollinger, but only in German: http://www.computerschach.com/sprechstunde/archiv/chrilly1d.htm
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