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Subject: Re: Was Brutus cancelled?

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 20:59:38 01/15/04

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On January 15, 2004 at 23:34:08, Slater Wold wrote:

>C.D. is still working on Brutus, I know that.  If he does not win in Israel, it
>will be cancelled.
>
>

Then they may as well cancel now and save the time.  Even if it were the best
program around, its chances of winning a single tournament are not very high,
not high enough to bet the future of a project on, for sure...

>On January 15, 2004 at 23:09:30, Keith Evans wrote:
>
>>On http://go.computer.free.fr/go-computer/threads.html (I think that there’s a
>>newer site now) Christian "Chrilly" Donninger apparently made some statements
>>which make me ask the question - did chessbase cancel further development of
>>brutus after Graz?
>>
>>Was this discussed here already?
>>
>>See below:
>>
>>From : "chrilly" < chrilly@xxxxxxxx >
>>Date : Thu, 4 Dec 2003 21:49:46 +0100
>>
>>Dear Vincent,
>>
>>>Yes Chrilly, you are correct. You work for  the company chessbase.
>>I worked till last sunday for CB. I think this is  no shame. Most professional
>>chess programmers work now for CB, because CB is a  quasi-monopol and it is
>>difficult to run one´s own  bussiness.
>>
>>---
>>Then in another post he says something which indicates that he will have some
>>time to work on other things:
>>
>>“There are some plans that I write a 9x9 FPGA Go programm. This  is yet not
>>fixed, it depends on the result of the negotiations with a  potential investor
>>(I can not finance such a project from my own pocket.  Especially I would not be
>>able to produce a few thousand Go-cards).”



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