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Subject: Re: Brutus-Experimental Program at Paderborn

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 15:09:01 02/20/03

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On February 20, 2003 at 17:21:25, K. Burcham wrote:

>
>Anyone know what kns Christian is getting in this tournament?
>Maybe this is top secret.
>This program is doing very well so far.
>
>kburcham

They quoted 3M to me in the many games they have played against me on
ICC...

As one reference point...


>
>http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=221
>http://www.uni-paderborn.de/~IPCCC/IPCCC2003/participants.html
>
>Brutus-Experimental
>
>"The acronym FPGA stands for Field Programmable Gate Arrays, and the V405E
>development system contains one of these. It is essentially a programmable chip.
>Dr Christian ("Chrilly") Donninger is currently writing chess playing code for
>FPGA use. The advantage is that anything programmed this way will run very much
>faster than on a general purpose chip like the Pentium or Athlon".
>
>
>"Due to the sturcture of the code you can add chess knowledge in any
>quantity without slowing down the process. Chrilly Donninger has consulted all
>the leading experts in the field, and he is also cooperating with a strong
>Russian GM".



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