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Subject: Re: Different Hydra personalities against Rybka

Author: Russell

Date: 00:21:07 12/13/05

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On December 13, 2005 at 02:47:04, Uri Blass wrote:

>On December 13, 2005 at 02:16:50, Chrilly Donninger wrote:
>
>>I experimented recently with a Shredder-style search in Hydra.
>
>
>What is shredder style search?
>
> The
>>single-processor Shredder/Hydra completly demolished Shredder. If two programs
>>are similar, the strength difference is enlarged. Its therefore a bad idea to
>>tune a programme against itself.
>>But the Shredder/Hydra made only 40% against Rybka. Changing back to the
>>standard Hydra-search its between 75-80%. Rybka is regularily "killed" in
>>king-attacks. As noted before, this numbers are for Hydra-single-processor. The
>>PC-programm is running on a 3.2 MHz Pentium 4. Time control is 30secs/move. A
>>standard-opening set similar to the Nunn-openings is used.
>>
>>Changing the search is not only a tactical matter. The playing style is to a
>>large extend also influenced by the search. If two moves are from the evaluation
>>point similar, the programm usually plays the one with the larger search tree.
>>Or in other words: The lines which are extended. The Shredder/Hydra played
>>over-aggressive, whereas the classical Hydra with the right dose.
>>
>>One conclusion of my experiment is: Rybka seems to be fairly tuned against
>>Shredder. This is always the fate of the leader of the gang. In the future other
>>programs will be tuned against Rybka and it will be much more difficult to stay
>>on the top.
>
>Based on the blitz rating list Rybka32 -bit lost 12.5-11.5 against Shredder9(see
>the link) so it does not seem to be tuned against shredder9
>http://www.husvankempen.de/nunn/eloblitz.html#2
>
>Uri

In Earlier thread in this forum showed Shredder being destroeyd by Rybka. Look
at Kurt Utzinger test. Rebka Scored like above 70% I belive.



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