Author: Jorge Pichard
Date: 10:49:38 07/12/02
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On July 12, 2002 at 13:28:23, Jorge Pichard wrote: >On July 12, 2002 at 12:51:46, Joachim Rang wrote: > >>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. >> Here is a description of the Brutus project, I also noticed that Chrilly is working in conjunction with a Russian GM to improve the chess knowledge. http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=221 > >I only understood the last part in english, probably somebody can translate the >entire interview. > > >Gian-Carlo Pascutto: Hello, Nimzo seems to be a program that is more focussed on >a fast and deep search rather than an extensive evaluation. > >Chrilly: You are right. When I designed Nimzo 98, I felt that more speed than in >Nimzo 3 is necessary. But I think in the meantime the pendulum has swung back. > >Gian-Carlo: With the Brutus project, will you use the ability to do nearly >everything ‘for free’ on the chip to make the evaluation much more extensive? Or >will you keep the chip simple, so it is both cheaper and can be made faster - >even deeper search? > >Chrilly: The aim is to make a quite sophisticated evaluation. In hardware there >is almost no conflict between speed and knowledge. So less knowledge is not >significantly faster. There is the conflict between money and knowledge. I have >now got a bigger chip (Virtex-1000). This chip is 2.5 times bigger than the chip >I used in Paderborn. This chip is definitely big enough
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