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Subject: Re: Is Hydra the strongest chess engine now?

Author: stuart taylor

Date: 15:37:30 02/20/06

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On February 20, 2006 at 18:25:09, Terry Giles wrote:

>On February 20, 2006 at 18:13:11, stuart taylor wrote:
>
>>On February 20, 2006 at 11:41:24, Lubo Lubop wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>The match is sheduled for September in Abu Dabi.
>>>If Topalov win he will receive 1 million $
>>>For more info in Bulgarian only:
>>>http://www.topsport.bg/article.php?cid=7&aid=37417
>>
>>Why not Rybka? I thought Rybka was the strongest at the momment.
>>S.Taylor
>
>
>Rybka is a chess engine (software only) which runs on conventional PC's.
>Hydra is a specialised combination of hardware and software and non-commercial.
>
>Terry

And would that make it atleast 50 elo points stronger than the finished Rybka on
fast dual processor, soon?
(I find that hard to believe)
S.Taylor



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