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Subject: Re: Hunting Hydra

Author: Earl Fuller

Date: 19:17:05 06/26/05

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On June 26, 2005 at 21:37:04, Peter Kappler wrote:

>On June 26, 2005 at 19:34:30, Earl Fuller wrote:
>
>>The question still must be answered, Hydra vs Shredder.
>>Some of you think Hydra is all but unbeatable,__i do not__:)
>>The match that is begging to be played now is of course, Shredder vs Hydra.
>>With Shredder on a state of the art computer that has been tested before the
>>match__:)__would be very interesting indeed. And not some old laptop.__:)
>>These people that have programed Shredder should hunt Hydra down and slay it.
>>Come on Shredder team, there is someone knocking at your door !___:)
>>earl
>
>
>Absolutely!  An 8-game match would be great!  But Shredder needs a very fast
>machine for this to be a fair match.  A quad-processor Opteron would be perfect.
> Hydra should run on the same hardware it used to beat Adams.  Nah, 32 FPGAs is
>too fast.  16 sounds about right.
>
>I'm certain that Hydra would win this match handily.  I'll even go out on a limb
>and predict the score.  Lets see, I think Hydra would probably win 3 games and
>draw the remaining 5, for a final score of 5.5-2.5.  Remember, you heard it here
>first!
>
>:)
>
>-Peter

Well what ever the result would be, we will never know unless there is a match.
I think the match should be something like 12 games or 16 at 40/2
A match between Shredder and Hydra is a match i'd like to see, wouldn't you?
earl



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