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

Author: Sandro Necchi

Date: 22:18:46 02/22/06

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On February 22, 2006 at 20:06:50, Albert Silver wrote:

>On February 22, 2006 at 15:03:26, Sandro Necchi wrote:
>
>>On February 22, 2006 at 14:52:58, leon J wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>>>                                   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.
>>>>
>>>
>>>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
>
>I'll gladly be proven wrong you know, and trying to measure the full-strength
>Hydra in comparison with other software is very much a question of speculation,
>so...
>
>                                        Albert

I meant that if Hydra did not improve than Rybka is surely stronger than Hydra
even if running on a single processore 64 bit.
This based on the match we had and what could be seen from a handicapped
version.

If Hydra did improve a lot, than it is another story...

Sandro



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