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

Author: Eduard Nemeth

Date: 16:48:17 04/10/05

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On April 10, 2005 at 19:18:25, Torstein Hall wrote:

>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

The Question is _NOT_ "Hardware or Software".

The Question is simple: which is today the best ChessProgramm
(Hardware+Software) ??

I my Opinion the answer is real only HYDRA!

For german people (for english too - You are welcome! - but the Text and my
Forum is only in german) here my another Question "about Hydra and Elo 3000",
here:

http://f27.parsimony.net/forum67838/messages/466.htm

Best,
Eduard



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