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Subject: Re: What would it take to beat Hydra?? Not very much!

Author: George Sobala

Date: 09:58:43 06/25/05

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Hydra performed very badly in the recent Freestyle Chess competition run by
ChessBase - competitors were a variety of GMs and amateurs assisted by databases
and computers. The two Hydra machines did not even make it into the final 16.
Interesting that the eventual winners were a couple of amateurs using not very
special hardware/software and they beat a selection of computer-and
super-GM-assisted GMs.

On this evidence the "strongest chess entity on the planet" is a database
administrator + a soccer coach + 3 ordinary PCs :)

Links:

http://chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=2446

http://chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=2461

http://chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=2467



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