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

Author: George Tsavdaris

Date: 03:10:08 04/11/05

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On April 11, 2005 at 02:07:24, Heli Weigel wrote:

>>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......
>
>Is this a personal opinion or can you base this on any facts?
>If you have information that can proof your statement please let us all know.

I have no proof about that of course. So this is a personal opinion..........

 Notice that i don't believe Hydra, would not belong to the top programs if it
wasn't playing on such a "huge" hardware, but it is the top program (undefeated
on Playchess.com, very good tournament results,....,etc) because it plays on
such a "huge" hardware.
 And i can add that the interesting and impressive attacking style of Hydra is
not based on the hardware but on the algorithms it's using (knowledge). And the
fast hardware helps of course the attacks to be precise and correct. This is a
clever way.... Create an attacking engine, and give it the best hardware so it
will outsearch its opponents, so the attacks will be successful. That is what
Hydra doing mostly.........




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