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

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

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


    Twister.

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