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Subject: Re: About (Multi-) Brutus (in german)

Author: martin fierz

Date: 09:00:45 08/06/03

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On August 06, 2003 at 11:08:58, Patrick Götz wrote:

>Hi
>
>A Multi-Brutus will play in Graz.
>
>http://www.chessbase.de/spotlight/spotlight2.asp?id=12
>
>regards
>Patrick

for those who don't understand german, this seems the most interesting part in
the interview to me:

"Seit der WM haben Alex und ich weiter fleißig an Brutus gefeilt und gehobelt.
Es wurden zahlreiche Detailverbesserungen eingebaut. Inzwischen haben wir ein
sehr ernstes Luxusproblem. Auf unseren Test-PCs (2.4 GHz Pentium) ist Brutus
wesentlich besser als Fritz&Co. Wir müssen den anderen Programmen ein
Zeithandicap von etwa 30 zu 90sek./Zug geben, damit die Partien halbwegs
ausgeglichen verlaufen. Das erschwert die Testarbeit sehr. Auf einem 8-fach
Server hat aber Deep-Fritz gegen Brutus noch immer die Nase vorn."

in english: "since the world championship [2002 maastricht] alex [kure] and i
[chrilly donninger] have been working hard on brutus and made a lot of
improvements. in the meantime we have a serious luxury problem: on our test-PCs
(2.4GHz P4) brutus is much better than fritz & co. we have to give the other
programs a time handicap of 30 to 90 sec/move [he doesn't write at what time
control he's playing...] so that the games are a bit more even. that makes
testing difficult. on an 8-way-server, deep fritz is still stronger than brutus
though."

he goes on to explain that therefore they will be playing with a 6- or 8-way
brutus in graz.
other items of interest might be that brutus calculates ~2.5MN/sec, and that
besides donninger there are a number of well-known people who helped with
brutus, among others ken thompson, ernst heinz, alex kure, ulf lorenz and GM
Genadij Timoscenko.

cheers
  martin



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