Man vs Machine- 21 to 27 June, 2005 / London, UK

Grandmaster Michael Adams with an ELO rating of 2741 plays a six game match against Hydra Supercomputer which can analyze 200 million Chess moves per second and projecting the game 18-4 move head (6 more than Deep Blue). Hydra is a 64-way cluster computer- 64 computers connected and operating as if they are a single machine and each computer has an Intel Xeon 3.06 Ghz. Up to this match, Hydra has never been beaten by a human. Hydra defeats Adams without losing a single game. On rest day June 24th, Hydra played against 8 selected people from a list of 200 registered players with a time control of 15+10 and defeated them all.



 
Games  01  02  03  04 05 06 Total
Hydra  1    1  1 1 1  5.5
Adams  0    0  0  0  0    .5
Date  June 21 June 22  June 23 June 25 June 25 June 26  

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