Author: Eye Witness
Date: 20:02:53 11/24/03
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On November 24, 2003 at 19:26:12, Peter Skinner 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) > >Well as the approach to Brutus has been done before just not in the same way, I >would hardly call it next gen. > >While the cards do offer some benefits, you have to remember they run on a 33Mhz >bus for now, which is slow. The average personal computer runs at atleast 133 >Mhz bus. Some as far as 800Mhz. > >Brutus has been playing very well, but it is not over yet. We can see that 500 >processors for Diep has done virtually nothing to help Vincent there. His >achievement in making it run on 500 processors is something to be commended on, >but he did little with the program to make it stronger. You can add all the >_hardware_ in the world, but if the program itself isn't strong it will not win. > >The Brutus fad will come and go just as quickly as a fart in the wind. Well I >hope so anyway. You know Vincent and Chrilly had a few big bowls of pork and beans recently..... :) > >Peter.
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