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Subject: Re: Did HYDRA play perfect chess? Impossible!

Author: Rolf Tueschen

Date: 11:05:11 07/01/05

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On July 01, 2005 at 13:41:05, Otello Gnaramori wrote:

>On July 01, 2005 at 09:18:09, Rolf Tueschen wrote:
>
>>Since my perfect chessmachine ROLF played only 75% of the HYDRA moves against
>>Adams, you can see how far away HYDRA is still from perfect play. That is why
>>it's still making sense if more GM play show events.
>
>It's a path near to perfect, perfection is a "chimera" , but it's stronger than
>strongest humans listening to Mr. Adams words...that is why it's so damn
>difficult to beat:
>
>From Adams interview at chessbase
>...
>"I think it proves that Hydra is a much stronger ‘player’ than any other
>computer in the world. We may not be able to measure its strength in Elo, but it
>is huge. I also suspect Hydra is stronger than any other human opponent. Okay,
>it has to be proved in the future, but this is my impression at the moment and I
>suspect it is accurate. I mean from my point of view I don’t think I played
>terribly. I did my best and it just wasn’t good enough."
>
>
>w.b.r.
>Otello


Hi Otello,

what Adams says in the interview is under the medication of 10000 he got for his
draw. Adams doesn't know the computerchess world. Certainly he never heard of my
perfect chess machine.

Debating the Elo of HYDRA doesn't make sense because it hasn't played much games
yet. On playchesscom HYDRA wasn't successful at all. Now you cannot begin to
calculate the Elo for - say - Sturday night or Monday. Elo is either for the
whole of it or nothing.

If a human chessplayer had beaten Adams with 5,5 to 0,5 THEN this human
chessplayer had a tremendous Elo performance. But if you let Adams play a 6
games showevent against HYDRA, a completely unknown machine, and then calculate
Elo number with human touch so to speak. There is no such number.

My tiny little program ROLF has Elo of over 30000, because it won all the games
it played. No wonder because it plays perfect chess with its 640 processors!

That should give you a light impression of the power of my program. HYDRA and DB
and all the rest are millions of lightyears below - because as you know Elo
can't be calculated with basic retangular maths. So a three times stronger
player cant claim Elo 6000 if it has beaten a 2000 player. Know what I mean?!

Elo 30 000 (In words thirty thousand) is as if you would leave the solar system
of this universe and enter new worlds, so to speak. I hope I could clarify a
bit.

Rolf, Actually from Outer Space



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