Author: odell jones
Date: 13:03:16 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 You have to remember these were not ordinary Granmasters , but Super GM's I think Junior performed quite well considering the opposition.
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