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Subject: Re: Go Brutus!!

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 13:03:16 11/24/03

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On November 24, 2003 at 15:56:28, Slater Wold wrote:

>On November 24, 2003 at 15:05:53, Pete Rihaczek wrote:
>
>>I for one am very excited to see Brutus in the lead. This is an exciting advance
>>in chess computing and FPGA computing in general. With the ability to add
>>knowledge without the usual penalty, some version of this is the odds-on
>>favorite to be the world's strongest chess machine. Such a system was a logical
>>step after Deep Blue II had shown the advantages of computing in hardware. Can a
>>Kasparov-Brutus match be far away? Well done Dr. Donninger!
>
>1. I just wish anyone else in the world would have made Brutus, besides Dr. D.
>Chrilly is a horrible person, and it makes me a little more than reluctant to
>purchase ANYTHING he puts out.
>
>2. These cards, if ever made publicly available, will *probably* be around $200
>(per card).  Chrilly was "talking shit", saying that when he was playing Brutus
>vs Fritz/Junior/Shredder @ the Chessbase offices, he was having to give them X%
>more time, just so Brutus didn't constantly crush them.  Yea, then he shows up
>to Graz with _8_ cards.  8x$200, you do the math on that one.

It is the first time that I read that he claimed that Brutus constantly beated
the chessbase engines with equal time.

Did he claim to do it with one card and not with 8 cards?

>
>3. As the saying goes, 'may the best chess (and hardware) program win'.  If
>that's Brutus, so be it.  But I gotta be honest, I wouldn't be one bit upset if
>Brutus didn't win another game...

I do not see a reason to prefer the best thing to win.
There are programs that I do not want to win even if they are the best.

Uri



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