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Subject: Re: Hydra upgraded

Author: Andrew Walker

Date: 17:48:18 11/20/05

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I'd like to know if they've run any of the standard test sets through Hydra.
The output would be very interesting!

Andrew

On November 20, 2005 at 20:39:32, Vincent Lejeune wrote:

>http://hydrachess.com/
>
>...
>With a processing power of 200 million moves a second – more than 200 times an
>average home PC and 6 times the processing capability of Deep Blue – Hydra can
>be configured for a range of super-computing tasks beyond chess, such as DNA and
>finger-print matching, code breaking and space travel calculations.
>...
>Hydra’s Managing Director, Syed Basar Shueb said: “We have focused all our
>attentions on building the world’s greatest chess computer, a task that has
>taken four years and a lot of money. We’re confident that each member of the
>Human Team will have trouble landing a blow against our silicon champion.”
>Hydra has been upgraded to 64 processor cluster, “we have high hopes and we are
>expecting a 4-0 win for Hydra, I know its very optimistic but this optimism
>comes after all the experience we had with the development and performance of
>Hydra in different tournaments”, said Muhammad Nasir Ali the project director ofHydra.



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