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Subject: Re: Status of Brutus?

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 14:17:10 07/26/03

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On July 26, 2003 at 17:06:10, Slater Wold wrote:

>On July 26, 2003 at 16:25:37, O. Veli wrote:
>
>>What is the current status of Brutus by Dr. Donninger?
>
>He is still working on it.
>
>>Since it is hardware, can we expect to be stronger than top software?
>
>You can expect whatever you'd like.  It got roughed up pretty badly on
>playchess.com by top commercials on top hardware.  But it's done well in
>championships.
>
>>Expected date of release?
>
>Chrilly said over 2 years before it's a commercial product in a recent
>interview.  If it's strength doesn't substantially grow over the next 2 years,
>I'd say longer than that.  No one is going to pay $100+ for a PCI card that can

Must be $1000 target at least.

I guess many will pay that if it gets world champion and then plays a match
against kasparov. If something plays a match against kasparov then it must have
about the same rating right?

If you disagree then you're someone who disagrees the general audience won't.

So winning the championships trofy is important for brutus because it will boost
sales and garantuee a match versus kasparov. Donninger said in CSS that he will
have a match versus kasparov when he wins the world champs.

I doubt however that the world champs version of brutus can be sold for $1000.

More like $3000 it will be i guess.

So i doubt whether $500 target will be reached. You can't produce for that
little money products which use so many gates at the moment.

>only beat Junior or Fritz "sometimes".  You can always make Junior or Fritz
>stronger by upgrading your computer.  Brutus can run on a P2-266 and be the same
>strength as if it was run on a Quad Opteron.
>
>>Thanks for your time,



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