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Subject: Re: Hydra wins game 3 in spectacular fashion

Author: Matthew Hull

Date: 12:15:27 06/23/05

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On June 23, 2005 at 15:04:35, Peter Berger wrote:

>On June 23, 2005 at 14:46:26, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On June 23, 2005 at 12:44:31, Peter Kappler wrote:
>>
>>
>>Utterly marvelous choice of opening by black again.  Think he is going to figure
>>this out anytime soon?  :)
>
>I disagree - the closed Ruy Lopez was *the* logical choice for Adams IMHO.


How can it be logical when white simply opens the closed Ruy?


>But
>kudos to the Hydra book author for choosing 9. d4.
>
>I think this was a very impressive game and among the best I have seen played by
>a computer against a player of Adams's strength. One gets the impression that
>Hydra maybe simply is the better chessplayer.


I'm thinking any other machine would have played the same moves on nice
hardware.  I don't think we've seen what Hydra can do yet, since the games so
far seem no different than Shredder or Junior games.

What we really need is a GM who plays closed positions.  Any comp can beat the
stuffing out of any GM in open positions.



>
>Especially if you compair with the game played by Kazimdzanov (sp?) against
>Fritz playing under the name Akooma Chess Bar (?!). Hydra hasn't played stuff
>like Nh5 yet.



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