Author: Uri Blass
Date: 20:14:28 07/18/05
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On July 18, 2005 at 22:47:47, Juan Pablo Naar C. wrote: >On July 18, 2005 at 21:35:55, Earl Fuller wrote: > >>Well everyone, i did the best i could to get a rematch between Shredder and >>Hydra. >>I sent Stefan Meyer-Kahlen an email about such a rematch and he returned a reply >>saying "I would happily play such a match"___:) However, i recieved the reply >>from Hydra, i don't know who, it wasn't signed, saying "We are not interested >>in playing against computer programs anymore, because there is no one that can >>challenge Hydra",____I even sent emails to IBM, trying to get a reply, but i >>never got one, also emails to the N.Y.Times, Boston Globe, Etc., thinking they >>would know someone high up at IBM and want them to answer the challenge from >>Hydra !__but i never recieved a reply. >>I still believe that Shredder is the strongest PC program today and the only one >>than can "challenge", Hydra, but the only way to make this happen would be for >>the chess community to flood Hydra with emails asking for the rematch, or for >>someone to put up some dollars,___I don't see that happening, so___ >>Best regards, >>earl > >Hydra's answer is completely believable. They want the world to know that they >are #1, because of Michael Adam's evidence. IMHO, I think, that they know that >very in the deep of those luxury processors lies a not so strong engine that can >be counter-defeated by a similar hardware in which Shredder could run. The >highest and most powerful machine available that can be bought is quad opterons >2.2ghz dual core each (see tytan's motherboards), that in total are 8 processors >that can easily match against 32 Xeons 3.06ghz. Between, Deep Shredder can run >in those processors without the need to be re-written (Stefan, correct me if I'm >wrong) and that machine is about 5,000 dollars, very affordable if Shredder got >the "company's" support. IMHO I think, why didn't Deep Blue or Hydra released >their engine as a software? because it is hardware and no software. Deep blue was hardware that was designed to play chess so it was impossible to release it as software and the same is for hydra. You cannot divide it to software part and hardware part because decisions about the software were based on the hardware. Uri
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