Author: Madhavan
Date: 23:23:03 06/06/05
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On June 07, 2005 at 02:09:56, Uri Blass wrote: >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. there was a rumor,someone who had been running Hydra 8 all the time in chessbase server I'm sure it was not from Chrilly's testers or team >2)I do not believe that hydra's hardware give hydra advantage that is equivalent >to being more than 10 times faster. Is hydra an improved version of Nimzo? >>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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