Author: Uri Blass
Date: 05:44:18 12/27/05
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On December 27, 2005 at 08:36:24, JNoomen wrote: >Hi all, > >It's quite possible that the computerchess lists show something like this at the >end of the year: > >1. Rybka 32-bit >2. Fruit 2.2.1 >3. Fritz 9 >4. Shredder 9 >5. Hiarcs 10 > >Now suppose we enter Hydra and Zappa in these lists. Condition: they both play >on the SAME hardware as the above 5. So no program has a hardware advantage. All >programs use their own book. > >Now comes the poll question: where do you think that Hydra and Zappa will be in >the list given above? hydra cannot run on the same hardware and this was explained in the past also by chrilly. He said that there are things that are cheap for hydra but very expensive if he tries to do it on the same hardware that most use and that there are things that are expensive for software on Normal PC so he even did not try to do it in Nimzo but cheap for hydra. Uri
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