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Subject: Re: Another poll: strength of Zappa and Hydra

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 09:14:49 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?
>
>Of course I am especially interested in the views of Chrilly and Anthony :-).
>
>Best wishes to you all,
>
>Jeroen
>
>
>PS  I called it 'another poll' as Marc Lacrosse had a nice one on the final
>standings of Paderborn


How would one run Hydra on "exactly the same hardware" when hydra is FPGA-based
in the first place???



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