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

Author: Peter Berger

Date: 08:45:39 08/30/05

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On August 30, 2005 at 09:34:15, Uri Blass wrote:

>On August 30, 2005 at 09:27:34, Lieven Clarisse 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
>>
>>http://f23.parsimony.net/forum50826/messages/131801.htm
>
>Thnaks I see
>
>001 Hydra                          : 2864   21  55   512    77.1 %   2653    5.9
>%
>002 Shredder 9                     : 2702    6   7  7933    65.1 %   2593   31.4
>%
>003 Deep Shredder 9                : 2691   25  22   604    56.1 %   2649   33.1
>%
>
>Note that Deep Shredder9 for a match against shredder by definition use at least
>4 processors.
>
>I do not believe that Deep Shredder9 with 4 processors is weaker than Shredder9
>that can use only single processor.
>
>I also suspect that the hardware that was used for shredder is not the best.
>I cannot take this list as a serious list.
>
>Uri

To understand the shortcomings of the list, you only have to look at a few older
programs btw, where you can clearly see that a huge hardware factor is meddled
into the data, making results more or less useless - good example is Junior 7.

Peter



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