Author: Terry McCracken
Date: 18:42:46 06/24/05
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On June 24, 2005 at 21:14:55, Arnon Yogev wrote: >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 know that...still the machine is similar and not invincible. >>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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