Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 07:30:32 02/17/04
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On February 17, 2004 at 08:41:16, Bob Durrett wrote: > > >The fact is that Hydra whipped a bunch of conventional chess computers at >Paderborn. That fact is indisputable. > >How??? > >How could Hydra, chugging away at the clock rate of a slow snail, win against >the high-nps conventional machines? I don't understand the question. Hydra probably hit speeds of 15-20M nodes per second. How is that "a slow snail"??? It was the fastest thing playing there by a factor of at least 4x... > >They say "nps isn't everything." But could the truth be "nps isn't anything"? > >Maybe conventional wisdom ["The Earth is flat"] isn't right after all. > >Does anybody understand what happened? I feel that the results were monumental! > >Bob D.
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