Author: David H. McClain
Date: 11:16:52 04/11/05
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On April 11, 2005 at 13:45:06, Roman Hartmann 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...... > >Why is Hydra a myth? It seems to be the strongest playing chess machine up to >this day. If you want to talk about a myth you should talk about Deep Blue which >played a few games against Kasparov and was quickly put away after that. It >would have been too embarassing to IBM if Fritz or Hiarcs running on a tiny >pentium would have beaten that hardware monster. The Hydra team isn't afraid to >play other computers, obviously. >Of course Hydra is strong because it's making use of powerfull hardware but keep >in mind that most other engines just don't scale as nicely as Hydra does. So >Hydra cannot be blamed that other engines just can't make use of powerfull >hardware. > >Roman Roman, There is nothing special about Hydra that money can't buy. IBM, Hewlett Packard and many others could do the same today if they desired to dedicate corporate funds to do so. By the way, when I challenged Hydra to a 60+15 match while rated at about 2500, it just sat there. I would never win against it anyhow, and a draw would be wishful thinking. So, it's safe to assume they do not want to take a chance with a low rated program account, so in that sense it appears to me they are also ELO hunters. DHM
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