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Subject: Re:Join the event and let Zappa zap Hydra

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 07:25:21 09/01/05

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On September 01, 2005 at 09:09:36, Volker Böhm wrote:

>Hi,
>
>to the case of hydra, we (Spike Team) played him last Paderborn Tournament.
>Hydra is much stronger than every pure software based chess program simply
>because of its computing performance.
>
>If you whant to see the performance of hydra just play a game with any engine
>giving him 10 sec. total computing time for the game vs. one of the top programs
>with 2h total computing time. The time difference simulates the difference in
>nodes per seconds between a software based program an hydra.
>
>You have to have much luck to win vs. hydra.
>
>Greetings Volker

I find this assumption extremely simplistic, and completely ignoring the known
inefficiencies of a many-processor, mostly hardware-based program.

Hardware != Software, your analogy is so flawed I have almost no words for it.

It's like Deep Blue bullshit all over again.

--
GCP



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