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Subject: Re: did you see how chessbase is worry about explaining the defeat...

Author: Rex

Date: 04:35:03 11/25/03

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Now lets remember that Brutus is Hardware.  Does not run software like the other
chess programs.  I cant see how one can compair Brutus and Fritz/Shredder on a
computer.  Totally different.  Brutus is nothing more than its own
processor/firmware.  Its an exciting concept following the lines of the Mighty
Deep Blue!!




On November 25, 2003 at 06:14:35, Ricardo R Santana wrote:

>I´ve just in chessbase page to see that Brutus (congratulations !!!) beat
>Fritz...but did you see how chessbase tried to explain the defeat ??
>"
>Donninger's program was constructed for Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA)
>systems. These are essentially programmable chips which have the advantage is
>that anything programmed this way will run very much faster than on a general
>purpose chip like the Pentium or Athlon.
>
>An additional benefit is that due to the parallel sturcture of the code you can
>add chess knowledge in any quantity without slowing down the search. In regular
>PC programs each new quantum of knowledge is bought at the price of search
>speed.
>"
>
>bla bla bla.... something like this: Brutus had a much better hardware...ok, but
>I´ve never seen this kind of explanation when we see Fritz or other in 1 on ssdf
>(I remeber when chessbase programs got first places, but they were the only one
>who had better hardware...)
>see you
>Ricardo



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