Author: Greg Simpson
Date: 06:05:43 12/27/05
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On December 27, 2005 at 08:44:18, Uri Blass wrote: >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 Of course it should be possible to emulate Hydra's FPGAs in software, and it wouldn't surprise me if the Hydra team already has that for testing. I would expect Hydra to be by far the worst program listed in that situation.
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