Author: Russell Reagan
Date: 20:33:48 11/24/03
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On November 24, 2003 at 22:40:07, Bob Durrett wrote: >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. But who is going to make the next Brutus? Remember, the author of Brutus was also the author of another reasonably strong software based program (Nimzo). It is going to take someone who has the experience and know how to write a strong program to begin with. That limits it to a handful of people in the world. I don't expect any of the top commercial authors to turn their focus to FPGAs. They have a good thing going. I highly doubt that selling FPGAs is going to be very successful financially. That is why I said it wouldn't suprise me if there were one or two new ones that came along in the next few years, but I don't think there will be a big trend of the masses moving to it. Most of us amateur computer chess programmers don't have the time, money, desire, or computer chess know how to create an FPGA beast like Brutus. There just aren't that many people who have all of the requirements.
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