Author: Djordje Vidanovic
Date: 07:12:57 12/27/05
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On December 27, 2005 at 09:05:43, Greg Simpson wrote: >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. I would expect Chrilly Donninger to have improved his "basic" program much further and it is surely way above the old Nimzo. Thus I would expect it to be on a par, if not even better, with the leading pack. Naturally, we are only speculating. Djordje
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