Author: Gerd Isenberg
Date: 01:41:54 08/31/04
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On August 31, 2004 at 02:00:57, Vikrant Malvankar wrote: >Was Hydra's victory over Shredder solely due to preparation or whether Hydra's >opening book was considerably stronger than Shreder's. I really don't know. I don't mean exclusive book preparation, but probably some kind of "personality" tuning if that is possible with Hydra, without makeing a new FPGA program each time. I guess even in the pc-software search of Hydra there is something to tune. In general it is an advantage to play a well known opponent rather than an "unknown". > >If so what would have been the result of the match in a FRC(Fisher random Chess) >match between the same opponents. > >I think Shredder with such low nps managed draws in the match itself proves that >it is a top program and chilly also agreed that the endgame play of shredder is >much better than Hydra's. > >Any comments? Shredder is one of the strongest programs (if not the strongest) on general purpose PC-Hardware. Seems that Hydra had something like a 10:1 speed advantage, considering raw nps and estimated parallel speedup and about the same quality of evaluation. May be Shredder compensates that a bit with his unique selective search tricks and probably better endgame knowledge. This time it seems that compensation was not enough, and Shredder got outsearched at some points. OTOH Stefan will gain a lot from this match to improve Shredder even more and he will try to do it better next time. Gerd > >Regards
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