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Subject: Re: Brutus Games (pgn & .zip)

Author: Tony Werten

Date: 23:18:20 06/15/03

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On June 16, 2003 at 00:01:58, Luis Smith wrote:

>On June 15, 2003 at 23:54:48, Sally Weltrop wrote:
>
>>On June 15, 2003 at 19:07:05, Patrick Götz wrote:
>>
>>>Here the games from the last 48 hours playing by Brutus on the CB-server.
>>>
>>>regards
>>>Patrick
>>>
>>>http://www.cuxh.de/Brutus48h.zip
>>
>>
>>Is this the Brutus of Chrilly Donninger? This runs on a specialized CPU,
>>correct?
>
>It did at the championships, but when I played it the playchess.com server
>quoted it as searching at 83 kn/s.  I was a bit baffled considering all the hype
>about its hardware, so the only conclusion that I can come to right now is that
>it is running on a normal processor rather than the FPGA chip talked about in
>the articles.

The 83Kn/s is the software part. Brutus doesn't count nodes in the hardware
part. The hardware does 2 or 3 ply, depending whether it's an odd or even ply.

Tony




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