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.

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.

• All games so far in ChessBase format (with computer protocols)

Picture Gallery

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.

Links

• Official web site
• Schedule