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Subject: Re: Will there ever be a Brutus Engine for Chessbase?

Author: martin fierz

Date: 01:17:57 08/11/03

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On August 11, 2003 at 03:15:54, Luis Smith wrote:

>On August 11, 2003 at 03:08:16, Jouni Uski wrote:
>
>>Of course - it will be Chessbase engine :-)
>>
>>Jouni
>
>I always thought it would just be a plug-in card that your computer detects
>automatically, and self installs.  The way I understand it Brutus is written
>onto the chip.  That would be great if they could port it so those of us who
>don't feel like spending $500 (estimate) on a chip can just install it straight
>from the CD.  Of course it wouldn't play as strong, it would still be fun to
>have.
>
>I think that might be very unlikely because why would Chessbase go through all
>that trouble of giving Donniger the money for the research on the FPGA just so
>he can port it and be sold like any other Chessbase engine.

it's obviously not designed to be ported to a PC. but since it's a chessbase
project, it will look and feel to the user as if it was just another chessbase
engine.

cheers
  martin

PS pretty impressive play in lippstadt by brutus up to now! games 1-3 were
great, game 4 had a lot of planless shuffling by brutus, but they seem to have
had a problem with the connection to the university in paderborn and were
running brutus locally - probably on slower hardware.



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