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Subject: Re:Dr Robert Hyatt

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 08:13:14 05/31/05

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On May 31, 2005 at 01:39:03, Tony Werten wrote:

>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
>>
>>
>>
>>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
>

Right.  But 14M is _far_ from 110M as quoted above...

>>
>>
>>>
>>>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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