Author: Ulrich Tuerke
Date: 00:01:26 11/25/03
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On November 25, 2003 at 02:46:53, Slater Wold wrote: >On November 25, 2003 at 01:18:25, Dann Corbit wrote: > >>On November 25, 2003 at 01:15:35, Jouni Uski wrote: >> >>>...best software title! >> >>The only thing the hardware does is move generation, which is a tiny fraction of >>the program's software. > >That's incorrect. In addition to generation of the last few plies, which is done by the additional chips, the hardware ewxtension is basically used to do a complex evaluation without performance penalty. For sure, Donninger and his team had to create and fine-tune the evaluation software which is run on the chips. So, Brutus is essentially a software project, although using more than the standard hardware. Uli > >>To compete at this level, the software will have to be of highest quality.
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