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

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 12:05:53 08/31/05

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On August 30, 2005 at 10:18:36, Uri Blass wrote:

I am actually not sure shredder is stronger at 4 processors than 1 or 2.

How many events did shredder win at 4 processors?

Shredders forward pruning seems too dubious when using 4 cpu's.

Doesn't take away it's a very strong program.

Please note i seem to remember that Zappa was 2900 rated at playchess for a
while, why isn't it at the list?

2800 ain't much

>On August 30, 2005 at 09:52:40, Joachim Rang wrote:
>
>>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
>>
>>
>>but a good one. It seems to reflect the overall playing strength rather well.
>>
>>regards Joachim
>
>No
>
>I guess that Deep Shredder9 on 4 processors is significantly stronger than
>Shredder9 on the same machine but the list does not reflect it.
>
>Uri



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