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

Author: Albert Silver

Date: 05:53:19 02/22/06

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On February 21, 2006 at 14:51:21, stuart taylor wrote:

>On February 21, 2006 at 10:30:19, Albert Silver wrote:
>
>>On February 20, 2006 at 18:37:30, stuart taylor wrote:
>>
>>>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
>>
>>
>>Rybka is a single processor program only, so it wouldn't take advantage of a
>>second core or CPU even if one were available for it.
>>
>
>Still, it might play stronger using what it CAN use, than Hydra, using what IT
>can use. And that's the main thing, isn't it?
>                                   S.Taylor


I sincerely doubt Rybka on a single CPU would beat Hydra running on 32 or 64
processors. I think it would just be outgunned.

                                       Albert



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