Author: Chessfun
Date: 11:35:26 02/17/04
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On February 17, 2004 at 12:49:42, George Tsavdaris 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.
>>
>
> Yes the fact that Hydra won is indisputable, but it doesn't mean anything of
>it's strength. Of course it is very very strong, but the fact it won in a 7
>game contest doesn't mean it's better from Shredder 8 for example (Or it's
>worse of course).
> I watched 7 games of HYDRA 1.02 today on playchess and Hydra lost 3 games
>versus Shredder 8 one to Deep Fritz 8 and had 2 draws against Shredder 7.04 and
>one win (perhaps it had better results before but i didn't watch it). One of the
>loss was in long time controls against Shredder 8 which was running on a PIV
>3.06 GHz, while in all the games Hydra was running on 8 x 2.8 Intel
>Xeons!!Despite of the superior hardware it couldn't have a better score.
>
I hadn't seen these recent losses as Hydra is no longer logged onto playchess.
Are you sure it was running on the 8 x last time I spoke to Erdogan he was only
using 4 despite it saying 8 in his notes.
I would expect it will lose some games but it must also be taken into account he
may have software or hardware problems. Also none of these games seem to be with
best book lines 2. f3? seems Erdogan is experimenting.
Sarah.
>[Event "60m + 15s, rated"]
>[Site "?"]
>[Date "2004.02.17"]
>[Round "?"]
>[White "HYDRA, Hydra-1.02"]
>[Black "Shredder 8"]
>[Result "0-1"]
>[ECO "D00"]
>[WhiteElo "2644"]
>[BlackElo "2810"]
>[Annotator "e"]
>[PlyCount "170"]
>[EventDate "2004.02.17"]
>
>1. d4 {[%emt 0:00:00]} d5 {[%emt 0:00:00]} 2. f3 {[%emt 0:00:00]}
>[Event "15m + 10s, rated"]
>[Site "?"]
>[Date "2004.02.17"]
>[Round "?"]
>[White "HYDRA, Hydra-1.02"]
>[Black "Shredder 8"]
>[Result "0-1"]
>[ECO "A45"]
>[WhiteElo "2637"]
>[BlackElo "2678"]
>[Annotator "e"]
>[PlyCount "210"]
>[EventDate "2004.02.17"]
>
>1. d4 {[%emt 0:00:00]} Nf6 {[%emt 0:00:00]} 2. f3 {[%emt 0:00:00]} d5 {
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