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Subject: Re: And I wonder how Zappa can do against Hydra

Author: Shaley

Date: 07:40:54 08/30/05

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On August 30, 2005 at 08:48:13, Uri Blass wrote:

>On August 30, 2005 at 08:22:25, Shaley wrote:
>
>>On August 30, 2005 at 08:14:10, Uri Blass 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.
>>>
>>>I do not think that Hydra is going to beat Zappa
>>>Chess is not games of hardware and I do not think that the better hardware
>>>always win.
>>>
>>>I am also not sure if Hydra's hardware is better.
>>>We are not able to compare between them and nobody here has access to Hydra's
>>>hardware.
>>>
>>>Uri
>>When Hydra beat Shredder I thought it happened due to the better hardware. I
>>must have been wrong then, it was a good hardware plus a tough programme, right,
>>Uri?
>
>Or maybe it was a buggy version of shredder as sandro(responsible for the
>opening book of shredder) reported in the past(Based on Sandro Stefan simply
>deleted the part that handle sacrifices in shredder so it was blind about the
>result of some sacrifices)
>
>Note that I guess that zappa2 is better than Shredder but it is only a guess and
>I may be wrong.
>
>Uri
No, I don't really think it was a buggy version of Shredder. Hydra beat Deep
Shredder in a principal match with a suppressing score of 5.5:2.5. The match
coverage is at http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=1875



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