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Subject: Re: Different Hydra personalities against Rybka

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 01:28:51 12/13/05

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On December 13, 2005 at 04:06:24, Vincent Lejeune wrote:

>On December 13, 2005 at 02:16:50, Chrilly Donninger wrote:
>
>>I experimented recently with a Shredder-style search in Hydra. 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.
>
>Thanks for your very interresting report, Chrilly.
>
>Very impressive results by Hydra, we can expect it on the top for the next years
>without problem.

I doubt it.
Other programmers make big progress and nothing is known about what is going to
happen in the next years.

>I'm a bit deceived it don't play anymore regulary on playchess.com, its firework
>games was so beautyfull ! ;-)
>
>Btw did you use some testsets with Hydra ? Would post results here ? I'm very
>curious about the Nolot testset results ...

I would like to read results in other test suite like ecmgcp or arasan test
suites.

Uri



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