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Subject: Re: Hydra is rated about 160 points higher than Shredder 9

Author: Shaley

Date: 07:34:29 08/30/05

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On August 30, 2005 at 09:33:02, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>On August 30, 2005 at 09:16:14, paul bedrey wrote:
>
>>On August 30, 2005 at 09:09:25, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:
>>
>>>On August 30, 2005 at 08:48:38, paul bedrey wrote:
>>>
>>>>On August 30, 2005 at 07:59:50, Shaley wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>Of course, the Hydra's hardware seems to be more powerful, so I think this match
>>>>>will be a win for Hydra with some score advantage, may be 1-1.5 points.
>>>>
>>>>At least according to Walter Eigenmann latest list. After 512 games its rated at
>>>>2864 and S9 at 2702.
>>>
>>>Where are those 512 games, no doubt played under valid conditions?
>>>
>>>--
>>>GCP
>>
>>I believe all games can be downloaded from his site. Beware its a database of
>>277,000 games. I too was wondering where they were played. Since people have
>>mentioned playing Hydra online I assumed that the games were stored somewhere.
>
>Online play? So essentially this list is all different hardwares??
>
>What a joke...
>
>--
>GCP
If we recall that Hydra is a 16 processor cluster, I don't think it's possible
to say about the possibility of Zappa running on a similar hardware. It will
surely take time to assemble the same hardware and assimilate the programme for
it. Today's Zappa running on the hardware it played in the WCCC undoubtedly has
little chance to resist the monster called Hydra.



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