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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