Author: James Swafford
Date: 16:37:55 08/22/05
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On August 22, 2005 at 15:56:01, Dann Corbit wrote: >On August 22, 2005 at 15:15:11, Engin Üstün wrote: > >>On August 22, 2005 at 11:57:33, Dann Corbit wrote: >> >>>Is it the largest margin (by percentage of points) ever for a WCCC or WMCCC >>>event? >> >>Hi Dann!, >> >>if hydra play on this WCCC maybe the margin where bigger then zappa, because >>hydra playing on a faster hardware, but i am not sure. >> >>why hydra not playing ? > >Because they cannot win. > >By that I mean, they would be expected to win. And so, if they win everyone >yawns. But if they lose then a big uproar. In a short contest like this one, >anyone has a chance. Look at the lone draw of Zappa and imagine if the same >game happened to Hydra and also if Hydra finishes 3rd. I think that the >investment for Hydra is probably many millions of dollars and it would be a big >embarassment. > >I wonder if Hydra would submit to SSDF? > >Perhaps the Hydra engine could play full force but online against the other >engines. > >Then we would all know just how strong Hydra is. But really, I do not think >that such a thing will happen. > >Here is my dream match for excitment: >1. Hydra, fully configured with as many CPU boards as they can load without >saturating the bus. >2. Zappa on a 16 way box with 4 way CPUs for 64 full-force threads. >3. Shredder 10 on the same hardware configuration as Zappa. >4. Fruit 3.1 SMP on the same hardware as Zappa. > >5. As long as I am hallucinating, then let's throw in Deeper Blue. > >Time control of 40/2 and 30 games against each program round-robin. I know what most people will say to this, but if I could see any matchup right now, it would be: Zappa vs. Ferret. -- James
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