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

Author: Sandro Necchi

Date: 06:47:11 07/30/04

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On July 30, 2004 at 08:43:44, Joachim Rang wrote:

>On July 30, 2004 at 08:14:07, Sandro Necchi wrote:
>
>>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
>
>What is Shredder CE?

A new version under test...I like it a lot...

>
>any details on time controls, hardware and schedule?

I do not know. I cannot go because I am moving to Lucca...
>
>regards Joachim

Regards
Sandro



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