Author: Madhavan
Date: 01:41:35 08/26/04
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On August 26, 2004 at 00:53:17, Vikrant Malvankar wrote: >I knew FPGA chips can not be used with Fritz, Shredder and Junior and is a >harware not a software but I really wanted to know how many people(programmers) >who are discussing Hydra vs Shredder match so aggresively really know abt >Hydra's Hardware here. > >Well now my real question, rather than using FPGA chips can a really huge >cluster say more than Hydra be used to operate Fritz,Shredder or Junior which >then can be turned into System like Deep Blue with better chess Knowledge (of >Shredder, Juior,Fritz) a research computer?a supercomputer?or what? if that shredder-hydra 7 game series is repeated with good hardware for shredder,say shredder should use 8 x 2.4 GHZ and junior opening book or shredder and hydra both using Nunn book 'd say shredder has a realistic chances of winning which Deep Blue lacked and is Hydra a new begining >towards that type of system? or is it that this is just one of the rare events >that Hydra has won ? (The same was said abt Shredder when it won a World >championship for the first time)
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