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Codename Brutus: Chess-Playing FPGA PCI Card

Posted by timothy on from the talk-about-specialized dept.

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."

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  1. And poor me by alexborges · · Score: 5, Funny

    I havent been able to beat gnuchess....:(

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  2. okay by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    I for one welcome our new chess playing overlords!

    mod me -1 Redundant, dammit!

  3. The Solution by John+Paul+Jones · · Score: 4, Funny
    Microsoft needs to offer something like this, offloading worm/virus processing from the CPU.

    I bet they'd make another billion.

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  4. One crazy scientist! by trippinonbsd · · Score: 5, Funny

    Look at that guy, he looks like a mad scientist.

  5. Finally... by wolrahnaes · · Score: 4, Funny

    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

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  6. Hmm by mkweise · · Score: 4, Funny

    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...

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  7. Re:Slightly Off Topic by Xerithane · · Score: 4, Funny

    Congratulations!

    You win the prize for being the first person to mention Go while being logged in in a chess story is this comment.

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  8. Computers will never beat us at... by Scrameustache · · Score: 5, Funny


    Twister.

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  9. Re:Slightly Off Topic by El · · Score: 4, Funny
    Where is there a game that requires the uniqueness of human thought over the pure power of computer calculations?

    Computers have never done well on "Jeopardy"; they keep forgetting to "please phrase your answers in the form of a question."

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