Author: Arnon Yogev
Date: 18:14:55 06/24/05
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On June 24, 2005 at 20:40:27, Terry McCracken wrote: >On June 24, 2005 at 20:28:28, Derek Paquette wrote: > >>"Some" lucky users on chessbase have done it, but not many, and I'm not even >>sure if its the newest version with the best hardware which has done that. For >>a human to beat hydra, especially Adams, they would not only have to come up >>with an amazing opening, come up with an amazing middlegame but play every >>subsequent move after that so that the advantage is clear and that hydra could >>not force a draw. Hydra seems to invincible when it comes to fighting humans, >>it seems impossible atleast to me, that any human could beat it, based on its >>performance to date, as well as its theoretical potential ie, fide rating. > >Topalov had Hydra pinned to the matt, but let the deamon up and only got a draw. >Hydra has lost some corr. games as well. In the time Hydra played these games(Bilbao)against Topalov&Co it was still using the old hardware(16 clusters), and naturally was inferior to the current version(1.06Bc). Note also that the lost games over the playchess server were achieved by other machines(Shredder, Fritz etc...). GM Arno Nickel played and won 2 games against the machine, though he was allowed to use computer assistance(and he did, ofcourse). >I'd like to see Topalov take on Hydra or Anand...Kramnik maybe or Leko, the best >would be Kasparov but not much hope of that. > >Adams just isn't in good enough form to slay this creature, it may turn out to >be a shutout with Hydra not losing a single game. > >Adams should have just played quiet chess going for draws.
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