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Subject: Re: Hydra crushes Vladmirov 3-0 (PGNs)

Author: Sune Larsson

Date: 04:48:12 08/20/04

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On August 20, 2004 at 07:02:51, Derek Paquette wrote:

>On August 20, 2004 at 06:38:19, Duncan Roberts wrote:
>
>>GM Vlamidirov of Kazakhstan lost three matches to Hydra in the human vs machine
>>category in the Abu Dhabi chess festival. The GM played 3 matches in a row and
>>the time control was 60 min. and 30 second per move. The GM commented that Hydra
>>was stronger than he expected. The fourth match will be played on 24th of August
>>at 07:00 EST and can be viewed at playchess server.
>>
>
>STronger than he expected? how stupid is this man?
>the machine is 50x faster than standard desktop hardware, is beating the hell
>out of the engine room on playchess, beating the hell out of Shredder 8 on quad
>opterons and he expected a cakewalk?
>
>just another example of how ignorant and self absorbed some GM's truely are.



  ...or simply not interested in computer chess...

  /S









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