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Codename Brutus: Chess-Playing FPGA PCI Card
rockville writes "Brutus, a FPGA add-in PCI card developed by ChessBase and Dr. Christian Donnegar, just dominated a strong field of human players at a tournament in Germany. It's the first serious chess-playing FPGA architecture since Deep Blue was disassembled after its victory over Kasparov in 1997. Pictures of the card and a short description are here."
Now, maybe I can get my friends to stop planting knives in my back during chess matches... ..oh wait. Damn.
I havent been able to beat gnuchess....:(
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I for one welcome our new chess playing overlords!
mod me -1 Redundant, dammit!
a beowulf cluster of em....
Make it idiot-proof and someone will build a better idiot.
I bet they'd make another billion.
Feh.
Look at that guy, he looks like a mad scientist.
Guess this thing won't fit into my Shuttle PC...
I was almost giving up on /.
It's been days since we had an article about something that is really cool but useless for all practical tasks
I used to get high on life, but I developed a tolerance. Now I need something stronger.
Deep Blue was disassembled after its victory over Kasparov in 1997
Kinda makes you shudder to think what they would've done to Kasparov if he had won...
Gentlemen! You can't fight in here, this is the War Room!
Congratulations!
You win the prize for being the first person to mention Go while being logged in in a chess story is this comment.
Dacels Jewelers can't be trusted.
Twister.
You can't take the sky from me...
Threat to humanity?
Warning: This sig contains a small bug. ==> *
It would also help satisfy your urge to spend more on your computer than you did for your car.
(taking into account the average Slashdotter's vehicle)
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que the anti-voodoo5 and anti-geforce5800 zealiots.
"but but but.. it takes an ENTIRE PCI slot... where will i put my porn stash now?"
Computers have never done well on "Jeopardy"; they keep forgetting to "please phrase your answers in the form of a question."
"Freedom means freedom for everybody" -- Dick Cheney
> Anyone know why Deep Blue was disassembled?
Because, when Gary asked him for the last time to open the game, he replied:
"I'm sorry, Gary, I'm afraid I can't do that." For some odd reason the chief scientist went nuts and spontaneously disassembled BB on the spot.
Don't you think that the computer might possibly be able to count cards as well? In a machine like manner even? And instantly calculate lots of ridiculous things? Card counters use lots of tricks to cut down on the amount of things that they need to remember/calculate...
Nerd rage is the funniest rage.
hmmmm... naked chess, I want to watch the females play
When will IBM come out with a supercomputer that teaches people the difference between 'loose and 'lose'?
Karpov saw this coming and competitive as he is, one day he asked me to try to fold him down to PCI form size. This was the first time in my life that knowing origami helped and although his ears were a big problem, somehow I managed to fold him down to PCI form size. OMG, he's still in PCI slot 5! No wonder I'm so good at Quake all of a sudden. Hmm, I wonder if I should get a heatpipe for him.
Why? Because computers are so bad at things like counting and keeping track of stuff?
your brain is so deficient at chess it requires the equivalent of an external FPUs installed in it - wow, a step backwards to 386s.
Sleepy mood this morning I think ;) At times deleting comments would be nice...