Author: Bob Durrett
Date: 19:40:07 11/24/03
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On November 24, 2003 at 20:26:54, Russell Reagan wrote: >On November 24, 2003 at 19:01:18, Eye Witness wrote: > >> Is Brutus the next thing, i watched the games on chessbase Brutus basically >>made all of the programs it played except for greenlight(which it beat) look >>almost silly, it ate the progams up killed them without mercy, it was a thing to >>behold!! Franz Morsch screams "BRUTUS!!!!" (like kirk screams KHAN!!! in start >>trek the wrath of Khan) > >I don't think we will see an explosion of these kinds of chess players. I think >we may see one or two more in the coming years, but it is so much easier to just >write a program, which can be done at almost no cost, and take advantage of the >natural increase in hardware speed. > >It seems like an awful lot of work and investment of time and money to create a >superior FPGA based player, and after all of that hard work, your player might >be obsolete in a few years because of the hardware improvements that software >players get to take advantage of for free. It depends on who is putting up the money or personal time. From the perspective of others, it is good that these guys produced Brutus because they are "showing the way" for future programmers. [Let's hope they publish!] As new hardware becomes available, it will be easier to produce the "next generation Brutus" [using "lessons learned"]. Every coin has two sides. Bob D.
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