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Subject: Re: Is Hydra now the strongest Chess playing entity?

Author: Vincent Lejeune

Date: 15:57:33 08/24/04

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On August 24, 2004 at 18:26:33, Daniel Jackson wrote:

>On August 24, 2004 at 17:44:18, Alvaro Jose Povoa Cardoso wrote:
>
>>On August 24, 2004 at 15:54:28, Daniel Jackson wrote:
>>
>>>On August 24, 2004 at 15:14:16, odell jones wrote:
>>>
>>>>Maybe there is still yet not enough games played?
>>>
>>>Make Shredder able to run on x number of processors and have a rematch.
>>>Given sufficient hardware Hydra will lose all of its Heads!
>>
>>No doubt it will be stronger but the question is: how sufficient is sufficient?
>>
>>
>>Regards,
>>Alvaro
>
>That's a darn good question, and I'll let the true hardware experts answer it.
>But I can say it will have to be supercomputer that is no less as fast or
>powerful then Hydra is running on. Unlike Hydra, my guess would be a parallel
>machine, not a cluster.
>
>http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=1866

I think we've not enough information about hydra to estimate the computer power
needed for a classical chess engine to rival it.




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