Author: Uri Blass
Date: 23:09:56 06/06/05
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On June 06, 2005 at 22:55:17, David H. McClain wrote: >On June 06, 2005 at 19:43:07, Mark Ryan wrote: > >>Some more of Chrilly's comments at chessgames.com: >> >> >>June 4: >>Besides these, Hydra is not unbeatable at all. We estimate that the programm has >>about 2950 Elo. Fritz, Shredder about 2800. 150 Elo more does not mean, that one >>can not loose. The combination of strong human player plus Shredder&Fritz is >>according our internal results about as strong as Hydra. >> > >As a layman, let me see if this is a valid deduction: > >The theory is that every doubling of speed is worth about 40 ELO points. No I do not know the theory and 70 elo or 50 elo was mentioned. I think that 50 elo is the estimate based on the ssdf results. Maybe 40 elo is correct for faster hardware. I >think this has been stated here many times. If that is a viable estimate, then >Hydra is acutally much weaker that Shedder on equal hardware. Correct? No 1)Hydra is not a software but hardware so you cannot use it on equal hardware. 2)I do not believe that hydra's hardware give hydra advantage that is equivalent to being more than 10 times faster. > >If that is the case, then what is the point the Hydra team is trying to make? >Well, to me they are proving that there is a point that is reached where nothing >is given in return, and they seem to have already surpassed this point but don't >know it. DHM Nonsense. There is no point when nothing is given in return. Uri
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