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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