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Subject: Re: Hydra on Schach.de - now since 38 games in series does not defeat!

Author: Torstein Hall

Date: 16:18:25 04/10/05

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On April 10, 2005 at 16:45:44, George Tsavdaris wrote:

>On April 10, 2005 at 16:10:03, Marc D wrote:
>
>>
>>Its hard to beat Hydra because of its hardware power.
>>I assume if Hydra could play on a normal system it wouldn't be that
>>strong...
>>
>
>Yeah, the whole truth is what you said............
>The "myth" of Hydra is based on the ability to use such hardware and not because
>of any revolutionary Chess-algorithms.....

In fact Hydra is just as much about hardware as anything else and can not play
on a common PC! But why use an old slow PC if you can afford to build a custom
built chess monster?

Torstein



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