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Subject: Re: Hydra: " best chessplayer have ever been." 3.062 FIDE

Author: Peter Kappler

Date: 21:07:18 06/26/05

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On June 26, 2005 at 23:48:10, Earl Fuller wrote:

>On June 26, 2005 at 23:34:45, Jonas Cohonas wrote:
>
>>>Pablo,___:)  there still is a match that needs to take place and that is
>>>Shredder vs Hydra______it's a match that must happen. 12 or 16 games at 40/2
>>>Hydra can't claim to be the top dog till it beats the number one SSDF rated
>>>program and that is Shredder.
>>>earl
>>
>>It has beat Shredder on more than one occasion and that was a weaker version of
>>Hydra :)
>
>One or two games here or there,___:) and i think one or two of the games the
>Shredder team was using a laptop____in any case, they have not played a match
>and thats what needs to happen. Besides, Shredder is the top rated PC program in
>the world and has been for some time. And now there is Hydra, a special built
>computer just for chess, __but it has not proven itself to be the top dog till
>it defeats the number one rated program in a match series.
>Wouldn't you like to see that match ?____i would.
>earl


Hi Earl,

I was trying to be funny in my other post where I predicted the score of an
8-game Hydra-Shredder match would be 5.5-2.5.  Apparently nobody picked up on
it, so I'll tell you the punchline - the match you are dreaming about has
already happened.

http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=1854
http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=1860
http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=1866
http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=1875

-Peter



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