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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