Author: Anson T J
Date: 09:25:18 02/17/04
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On February 17, 2004 at 10:30:32, Robert Hyatt wrote: >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... I think he is talking about the clock speed of the boards. I don't know the clock speed of the boards but I would imagine they are slower than GHz. > > > >> >>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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