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Subject: Re: Hydra will play against Shredder an 8-games match soon!

Author: Sandro Necchi

Date: 05:14:07 07/30/04

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On July 30, 2004 at 05:14:58, George Tsavdaris wrote:

>On July 29, 2004 at 19:47:13, Derek Paquette wrote:
>
>>On July 29, 2004 at 19:42:47, Dann Corbit wrote:
>>
>>>On July 29, 2004 at 17:11:25, Joachim Rang wrote:
>>>
>>>>------- Breaking News --------- Breaking News -------------
>>>>
>>>>In a german board someone pointed out, that there is an anouncement on the
>>>>Hydra-Website, that Hydra will play an 8-games-match against Shredder in Abu
>>>>Dhabi from 14th to 24th August 2004.
>>>>
>>>>Unfortunately no details are available yet regarding playing conditions,
>>>>hardware or whatsever.
>>>>
>>>>http://www.hydrachess.com/main.cfm?file=cfm/tournaments.cfm
>>>>
>>>>Isn't that exciting? :-)
>>>
>>>Hydra will have a very serious advantage.
>>>The Hydra team can easily get a copy of Shredder 8 to practice against.
>>>The Shredder team cannot get a copy of Hydra.
>>
>>True, but i bet Shredder 8 is going to be running on an 8 way box
>
> It doesn't matter. That Dann says, is the most important. Knowing your opponent
>is one of the most important things in Chess. And Hydra team does not only know
>the playing style of Shredder, but actually can play millions of games against
>Shredder 8 and tune Hydra for being ready against "him".
> The only hope for Shredder is that SMK would have changed Shredder X enough
>that it's style and strength would be significantly different and better from
>Shredder 8.

It will not be Shredder 8 and the book will not be Shredder8a.bkt

It will be Shredder Tel Aviv or Shredder CE with a new book.

Sandro



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