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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. I wonder by Kethinov · · Score: 0, Troll

    I wonder how much of this AI crap festers around on freechess.org

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  2. Sombody has to say it by Ugodown · · Score: 0, Troll

    In soviet Russia, CHESS plays YOU!

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