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Subject: Re: I agree with you but......

Author: Jorge Pichard

Date: 12:37:40 08/17/03

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On August 17, 2003 at 10:17:56, Martin Andersen wrote:

>On August 17, 2003 at 09:32:19, Rex wrote:
>
>>With Brutus becoming more and more exciting to watch with its strength and
>>development will software chess like we know it today become the thing of the
>>past?
>>
>>http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=221
>
>Will not happen. In the beginning af the 90's I had a 486 running 50
>or 66Mhz, can't remember, and a PCI (ISA ?) card for the Chess machine. At that
>time it made sense, since you would have a stronger program by using a
>dedicated card. Soon after the Pentium came, and no one would buy this card.
>Today, it makes no sense since the strongest programs running on PC hardware
>is capable of drawing against the world champion.
>
>Martin.


I agree with you, but not everybody has a computer stronger than an AMD 2800+
which is required to draw Kramnik, or Kasparov :-)


Pichard



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