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Bionic Chess Interface

Posted by timothy on from the mysterious-ways dept.

FFriedel writes "For over two years now ChessBase has been working on Brutus, a 'mini Deep Blue' running on an FPGA platform. What is taking them so long? Apparently the project has moves in a somewhat different direction. The author of Brutus, Dr Christian Donninger, revealed he was approached by the US National Science Foundation to participate in the development of a bionic chess interface."

9 comments

  1. And I thought CIA put it in my dental fillings! by Muhammar · · Score: 1

    "The electrodes that are inserted into the hippocampus are microscopic in size and delivered to their final place through a thin injection needle. The skull and cranium cavities are not opened, the entire procedure is performed under local anasthetics."

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  2. Damn it! by SiMac · · Score: 1

    Damn April Fools day...is this a joke or not!?

    1. Re:Damn it! by spike+hay · · Score: 1

      Yeah. There was a legit story a few days back about artificial implantable hippocampuses being developed. It's to restore long term memory function in Alzheimer's patients. But nothing about playing chess.

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  3. Yes, April fools... by MacroRex · · Score: 1

    Yet another april fools. The pictures taken from this article. Yesterday was completely ludicruous, and it seems that today will be only marginally better. *sigh*

  4. I need sleep by MrResistor · · Score: 1

    I first read that as Bionic Cheese Interface, and spent far too much time pondering why someone would want bionic cheese...

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    1. Re:I need sleep by cei · · Score: 1

      What's to ponder? Faster, Stronger, Little, Yellow, Different, Better. Oh wait, that's Bionic Nuprin...

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  5. April Fool's ... by MoobY · · Score: 1

    ... ought to stop once it becomes 2nd of April!

    Once you start reading the article it all makes sense, but once they start throwing in chess-playing rats that are more interested in their food it gets obvious.

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  6. Impressive by Omegalomaniac · · Score: 1

    They used the names of actually professors who have relevant research areas in the article. Besides the blatently stolen newscientist diagram and the 3 minute photo shopped rat picture, it was generally a good hoax. And it will only become more believable as time goes on.

  7. Counting Cards ... Definately definately.... by A55M0NKEY · · Score: 1

    I want a blackjack interface please!

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