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Subject: Re:Dr Robert Hyatt

Author: Tony Werten

Date: 22:39:03 05/30/05

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On May 30, 2005 at 19:51:44, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On May 30, 2005 at 19:18:16, Pablo Ignacio Restrepo wrote:
>
>>Dr Robert Hyatt
>>My own experience playing by myselft as a human being against Hydra in 2005 have
>>been an engine with a middle of 74,500 to 110,000 KN/s. I had two  draws 10+10.
>>Best regard,
>>Pablo
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>I do not understand those speeds, they seem to be outside the numbers I have
>seen reported recently.

It's the software search. Hardware nodes aren't counted but guestimated.

Assuming a ebf of 6 and knowing (from conversations with Chrilly) it is doing 2
to 3 ply searches in hardware (depending on nodetype) you come to 14 Mn/s
without quiescence nodes (wich would probably double this number).

Tony

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>>On May 30, 2005 at 16:08:54, Robert Hyatt 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??
>>>
>>>
>>>Lots of hyperbole, obviously.
>>>
>>>Maybe he should spend more time searching for poor photos of dead soldiers and
>>>less time writing this kind of stuff???



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