Author: Uri Blass
Date: 08:26:31 08/30/05
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On August 30, 2005 at 10:40:54, Shaley wrote: >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 Sandro already explained here that it was buggy version of shredder and the same buggy version also played in WCCC of 2004 and Stefan did not notice the bug. You can choose not to believe him but it is a fact that it was claimed by sandro. Of course stefan did not know about the bug when it happened and discovered only later that he deleted some part of shredder by accident and based on sandro the bug makes shredder weaker only at long time control and not at blitz so Stefan did not discover in his tests that shredder is weaker. Uri
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