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

Author: Sandro Necchi

Date: 12:03:26 02/22/06

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On February 22, 2006 at 14:52:58, leon J wrote:

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>>>                                   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
>
>Wait a minute! Shredder went toe to toe with Hydra (tied it once and lost the
>other times barely). Rybka 64 is at least 100 elo points stronger than that
>version of shredder. (check the rating lists). Thus that would be an incorrect
>thought.

More than that...the version of Shredder was a heavily buggy version, as
reported by me, about 150 points weaker than std. one, so the difference would
be about 250 points and not 100...

Sandro



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