[computer-go] question regarding Hydra Chess Supercomputer

[Suciu Flavius <sf_suciu@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Chrilly,

as far I understand, maybe I'm wrong, you're one of
the Hydra author.
How are you commenting the final position in the first
Man vs Machine World Championship from Bilbao...

How it's possible that Fritz running on 1,3 GHz laptop
achieve the same result with the monstrous Hydra
supercomputer?
Do you think that humans played better with Hydra and
don't concentrate on Fritz? ;)
Also, I'm just currious, how many nodes / second are
Hydra computing?

Btw, what's the Hydra price? A nice T-Short? ;)
I'm just curious if the price is worth to put my
laptop for a "hydraulic" work :D

Thank you very much ;)



--- chrilly <chrilly@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> >GHI has been first mentioned in the literature in
> the eighties by Palay
> >and Campbell. Yes, it does happen in chess, too :)
> >See
> >http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~kishi/publication.html
> 
> >for our two papers about GHI and how to solve it
> efficiently.
> >Martin
> >P.S: Publishing papers is one way of sharing
> secrets.
> 
> 
> Thanks Martin for the references. Publishing papers
> is probably also better
> than putting - like Crafty - code on the net. Avoids
> the "clone-discussion"
> and stipulates also more creativity than just
> compiling someone elses code.
> 
> But for a professional there is one problem: Besides
> giving other people
> information, it takes at least  a weak to write a
> paper. Just to finance my
> living I must earn 1000$ in this weak. Or with other
> words: The honour of
> being published costs me 1.000$.
> It is for a prefessional "publish and perish" and
> not "publish or perish"
> like for a person in an academic environment.
> 
> In case of the IGCA-Journal I think it is not even a
> honour, because the
> qualitiy of the Journal is rather poor. Most
> articles are not published for
> scientific but for "political" reasons ("you publish
> in my journal, I
> publish in yours, I invite you for my conference,
> you invite me for yours").
>  E.g. there was an incredible poor article about an
> FPGA-chess-movegenerator. I was the referee and
> simply said: The work and
> the article is ridicoluos. It was published
> nevertheless. Every journal has
> some "political" aspect, but the good ones have some
> scientific
> "alpha-value". Articles below are prunned.
> There are sometimes some good articles too, but
> nevertheless I would
> consider it now even as an insultion to be published
> in the ICGA-journal. I
> do not want to be mentioned in the same context than
> this FPGA-article.
> 
> Chrilly
> 
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