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Subject: Re: Is Hydra "the strongest chess entity in the world"?

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 02:58:26 02/25/05

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On February 25, 2005 at 05:32:28, Joachim Rang wrote:

>On February 24, 2005 at 13:56:22, James T. Walker wrote:
>
>>This statement at the tournament site is interesting.  Is it really stronger
>>than even the strongest humans?  What about postal chess?
>>Just asking.
>
>most probably this statement is true for all time controls. For correspondance
>there might be TEAMS which are better than Hydra (GM Nickel with engine help for
>example), but as for a singel entity Hydra is probably the best. It beat
>Shredder 8 which is a very strong program handily with 5-3

No

It did not play shredder8 but some version of shredder that probably has a bug
because stefan deleted some code accidentally(I believe the reports of sandro)

I also do not remember it play in blitz tournaments.
We simply do not have enough data to know

Uri



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