Author: Peter Skinner
Date: 11:42:26 10/12/04
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On October 12, 2004 at 10:28:16, Graham Laight wrote: >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 Personally I don't think it flopped. Sure it was outperformed by the other programs, but didn't flop. That is poor wording. Take Shredder and put it in the same circumstances, and I am sure it will fair much worse. Insert ChessTiger and it will shine over Hydra. There are programs that play well vs humans, and others that have problems. This is just one of those cases. The young man that beat Junior played a brilliant game, that I doubt _any_ program would have been able to defend against. It was simply one of those games where the human outplayed the computer from a positional standpoint. I know I will still be purchasing Junior, as I base my purchases on the SSDF list, the WCCC, and the IPCCC. So far Junior looks like one hell of a buy. Not to mention it is designed by Amir is another reason to get it. Personally I feel he does things in his program to make it play "interesting" chess. Same goes for Christophe and Tiger. I will _always_ purchase these two programs. Peter
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