Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 12:56:01 08/22/05
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On August 22, 2005 at 15:15:11, Engin Üstün wrote: >On August 22, 2005 at 11:57:33, Dann Corbit wrote: > >>Is it the largest margin (by percentage of points) ever for a WCCC or WMCCC >>event? > >Hi Dann!, > >if hydra play on this WCCC maybe the margin where bigger then zappa, because >hydra playing on a faster hardware, but i am not sure. > >why hydra not playing ? Because they cannot win. By that I mean, they would be expected to win. And so, if they win everyone yawns. But if they lose then a big uproar. In a short contest like this one, anyone has a chance. Look at the lone draw of Zappa and imagine if the same game happened to Hydra and also if Hydra finishes 3rd. I think that the investment for Hydra is probably many millions of dollars and it would be a big embarassment. I wonder if Hydra would submit to SSDF? Perhaps the Hydra engine could play full force but online against the other engines. Then we would all know just how strong Hydra is. But really, I do not think that such a thing will happen. Here is my dream match for excitment: 1. Hydra, fully configured with as many CPU boards as they can load without saturating the bus. 2. Zappa on a 16 way box with 4 way CPUs for 64 full-force threads. 3. Shredder 10 on the same hardware configuration as Zappa. 4. Fruit 3.1 SMP on the same hardware as Zappa. 5. As long as I am hallucinating, then let's throw in Deeper Blue. Time control of 40/2 and 30 games against each program round-robin.
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