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Subject: Re: How is Hydra faster and better than Deep Blue?

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 07:42:27 05/30/05

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On May 30, 2005 at 07:23:24, Ricardo Gibert wrote:

>On May 30, 2005 at 06:21:14, Pallav Nawani wrote:
>
>>On May 30, 2005 at 02:02:49, Amir wrote:
>>
>>>Deep Blue could calculate 200 million moves per second. According to what I have
>>>read, Hydra calculates 40 million moves per second. How then is Hydra sees
>>>deeper or is faster than Deep Blue, as is claimed by the authors??
>>
>>According to the logs that I saw, deep blue was searching 12 plies deep in the
>>K-DB match. My program can match that depth on a 1.1Ghz PC. This is because of
>>search techniques that were not used in deep blue. Eg: Null move, Rebel style
>>reductions, aggressive pruning. Hydra is obviously using such search techniques,
>>and given its higher processing power, it will easily outsearch Deep Blue. In
>>fact, in Shredder-Hydra match, shredder was searching to 16 ply (I think, but I
>>could be wrong) which was almost the same as Hydra (Again, not sure).
>>
>>Also, Deep Blue was using Singular Extensions, which increases the number of
>>nodes required in search.
>
>But which also reduces EBF. You should have left out this paragraph.

SE definitely INCREASES the EBF.

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GCP



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