Author: Mike S.
Date: 17:30:30 02/13/04
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On February 13, 2004 at 18:01:26, Rolf Tueschen wrote: >>You must read what was written! Such a question is impolite. *Might* have hit >doesn't mean *had* hit. Bob means that TP numbers are NOT a FIDE rating. But >ChessBase knew that. The restis propaganda. Because Hydra could be a new product >with much profit for the company. Hardware is always more expensive than >software. I think, the original question was referring to the rating (2780) in the Paderborn results table. I assume this was assigned by the Paderborn organizers, or maybe by the Hydra team themselves, but certainly not by ChessBase. http://www.uni-paderborn.de/~IPCCC/IPCCC2004/ranking.html The ChessBase/Brutus project has been discontinued. It has been reported that Hydra has found a new sponsor, from the Arab Emirates (a company "Pal Computer Systems"). It is listed with the country info "UAE" in the Paderborn participants list. My reply to Bob Hyatt was mainly meant humorous, because he wrote those ratings are meaningless thinking of FIDE, but I could immediatly provide a similar FIDE rating performance of Brutus, from a human tournament. :-) Of course I cannot prove that a true rating would be 2765 too (FIDE doesn't rate computers), but OTOH I don't see much reason to doubt it... Remember the Hiarcs and Shredder performances in those Argentinia tournaments. IIRC, some of these were higher even. I'm afraid there's not much left from your posting which has sense still :-) but I admit I've read that news about the UAE sponsor ~5 minutes ago only. I seem to have missed it when I read the latest issue of CSS (it's on the last page). But that ChessBase's support for the project has ended after Graz, is known for longer (it was reported in the previous issue, Dec.2003). Regards, Mike Scheidl
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