Author: Andrew Walker
Date: 18:11:31 06/01/05
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On June 01, 2005 at 15:55:06, Claude Le Page wrote: >People on this forum , and others , discuss whether Hydra is "better" than Deep >Blue or he converse ; but if I could run Shredder or Junior on a computer as >big as the White House it would be probably stronger than Hydra >So this discussion is not really interesting (moreover , it's like if you ask >whether Kasparov is stronger than Alekhine : they never will play a game ) >The only interesting question is : what is worth Hydra's software >I shall believe in Hydra when it will beat Shredder or Junior ON MY COMPUTER (or >on a computer like mine) >Friendly Yours >Claude Le Page One of the big problems is in that tuning for a multi-processor system, the evaluation weights and type of search pruning etc to use will be different than what it would be optimized for a pc. In addition you would need to increase or decrease the amount of "knowledge" used. So the Hydra as it is now and a Hydra properly tuned for a pc would be two completely different beasts. Taken the other way around, you could ask how Shredder, Fritz, Hiarcs or whatever would perform on Hydra like hardware. Again, they would have to be rewritten to be optimized so you would not be talking about the same engine. If you are ever able to run Hydra on your computer, I would guess it would be via the use of plug in modules. Andrew
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