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Subject: Re: Paderborn event is more interesting than the last WCCC

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 08:21:27 09/01/05

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On August 31, 2005 at 23:25:40, A. Cozzie wrote:

You're too polite.

Hydra gives any passed pawn at 7th rank like +3.0 blindfolded and a queen
attacking the opponent king is like +2.0

Get a position where either of those 2 assumptions aren't true and it looks
silly.

Zappa at a quad is i expect about 200 points stronger than Hydra at
tournament time controls.

>On August 31, 2005 at 23:02:33, Madhavan wrote:
>
>>http://www.talkchess.com/forums/1/message.html?446675
>>
>>Participant list looks very interesting.Hydra,Gandalf and Ikarus is more likely
>>to join the event
>>
>>If Fritz programmer gives a damn to let his program to play at the
>>paderborn,then the tournament would be even more interesting with only junior
>>and crafty left.
>
>Interesting is of course a subjective definition, so its up to you :)
>
>From a strength perspective I think they are about equal, if you consider Junior
>= Hydra and 8xCrafty = Gandalf.  Of course, if you think Hydra 'computes on
>water', to mangle an old english saying, then you probably don't agree.
>
>Personally I would put Hydra as the favorite, unless Zappa improves a lot in the
>next 4 months - which it won't, as I'll be busy taking classes and talking to
>professors and in general being a graduate student.
>
>anthony



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