Author: Graham Laight
Date: 07:28:16 10/12/04
Hydra seems to be a god-like system in its ability to pick out the profoundly brilliant move. Is it available to play against online anywhere? If ever there was a justification for charging a fee for a game of chess, then Hydra has it in spades! In competition after competition, it just keeps on punching in those brilliant performances. We have also known for many years that Fritz is outstanding - Franz and Mattheius (sp?) have long had a subliminally fast system - but for the past several years, they've also had a strategic system, with quite outstanding positioning skills. For them to equal Hydra's Bilbao score with only a 1.9 GHz processor represents consolidation of their position at the top of the programmers' tree. Then we have Junior - which flopped. What was it doing in the computer team? It was the only computer to get a negative score against the humans - and was well short of what its team-mates achieved (see http://www.ajedrezbilbao.com/cResultadosEN.htm). How does one explain such a poor performance by Junior, which had massively superior hardware to Fritz? Should we ask the Junior programmers to forward their program to to Franz Morsch for advice and improvement? -g
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