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Subject: Re: Somebody knows something about Hydra commercial future? (NT)

Author: Joachim Rang

Date: 15:55:21 11/10/04

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On November 10, 2004 at 18:32:17, Joseph Merolle wrote:

>On November 10, 2004 at 13:46:18, Joachim Rang wrote:
>
>>On November 10, 2004 at 13:39:21, Fernando Villegas wrote:
>>
>>>.
>>
>>Yes. There are no plans to enter the market with a Hydra-product anytime. So far
>>Hydra is simply a fun project of one wealthy Sheik. They are pleased to have the
>>strongest chess-entity on the planet and are eager to gather experience with big
>>clusters. For that Hydra is a good test. It is therefore unclear how long they
>>will support the project or in which direction they will try to develop it. the
>>above information is from the programmer Chrilly Donninger himself (in a german
>>board).
>>
>>regards Joachim
>
>Hydra is not the stroungest program out there its the stroung computer chess
>system, there is a big differance. Put anyone of the other top 10 programs out
>there (on the ssdf) using 16 processors and you will see hydra has problems.
>I realize that these other programs cant do that ( go up to 16
>processors)however hydra can be reduced to = the hardwar of the other programs.
>The hydra team are experts on computers not on chess. Now Stefan Meyer Kahlen is
>an expert chess programing. A fair statement that even the hydra team would
>agree to!
>
>JAMerolle


I wrote strongest chess-entity (perhaps I should add for OTB-Chess) and that's
exactly what I ment. The fact that Stefan Mayer-Kahlen is an excellent chess
programmer is not denied by that fact nor any other meaning.

regards Joachim



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