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Subject: Re: Adams-HYDRA Announcement

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 11:57:25 05/24/05

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On May 24, 2005 at 14:51:01, GuyHaworth wrote:

>
>Channel 4 TV has a story that Michael Adams is to play HYDRA in a 6-game match,
>? in London next month.
>
>"The smart money's on the chip, which is 6x more powerful than DEEP BLUE".  No
>reference to Adams tailing off badly at the Mtel event.

Deep Blue hit one billion NPS (with full eval) peak and 200M NPS sustained.
6x that would be 1.2 Billion NPS sustained.

>Mmm:  I guess the usual discussion will start but this seems hype to me.
>However, it confirms that the 'DEEP_BLUE' is still taken as the 'SI unit' of
>computer chess.

It's the stuff that legends are made of.



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