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Brutus is the brainchild of the Austrian programmer and mathematician Dr Christian ("Chrilly") Donninger, pictured on the left after his victory over Fritz. 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. |
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The playing site in Graz. Once again we remind you that you do not need
to change the settings of your monitor. The tournament is being held in a natural
cave lit up by (artificial) green light.
GM Boris Alterman, responsible for the openings preparation of Deep Junior
ICGA president David Levy watching the game Deep Sjeng vs Deep Junior
Sjeng author Gian-Carlo Pascutto facing Amir Ban and Shay Bushinsky of Junior
Frans Morsch looking plenty worried by the position of Fritz against Brutus
Rudolf Huber vs Steffen Jacob in the game Parsos vs Hossa
Thomas Meyer, author of the program Quark (German for curds)
Mr ICGA Prof. Jaap van den Herik
A modern camera-man: Matthias Wüllenweber of ChessBase moves around the
tournament hall with a notebook and webcam to bring video images to the Playchess.com
server.
All
games are being transmitted live on the Playchess.com server. This includes
audio commentary by GM Peter Wells and video impressions from the tournament
hall.
In order to follow the games you can use Fritz or any Fritz-compatible program (Shredder, Junior, Tiger, Hiarcs) to follow the action, or download a free trial client here.
