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Subject: Re: Hunting Hydra

Author: Joachim Rang

Date: 03:28:11 06/27/05

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On June 26, 2005 at 22:17:05, Earl Fuller wrote:

>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


Earl that match already happened, have a look here:

http://www.shredderchess.de/abudhabi.html

try a translator.



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