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Subject: Re: Isn't Hydra just an updated version of Nimzo8?

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 05:47:21 05/27/05

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On May 27, 2005 at 08:40:54, Jonas Cohonas wrote:

>quote="Secondly Nimzo was basically 1 big piece square table where he had made a
>'language' Che to initialize piece square tables. Hydra is far more agressive
>and far more a leaf evaluation based program than Nimzo is. Yet it will be so so
>complex to even get some simple eval to work in hydra that we must not overreact
>here. Compared to the 'average' commercial, hydra has little knowledge. its play
>shows it."end quote.
>
>Just out of curiosity, where exactly does it's play "show it"?

It's regurarly playing at chessbase server, operated by the sheik in own person.

Additional i've seen it in a tournament or 7 now. First under the name brutus
now under the name hydra. In fact i saw it play a few months ago in my own
person in Paderborn 2005.

Vincent



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