HydraChess vs Shredder

[monicker]

Anybody else been following this battle?

http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=1850

So far Hydra has won the first 2 games.

PGN available here:

http://www.utzingerk.com/m_hydra_shredder.pgn

[monicker]

Anybody else been following this battle?

http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=1850

So far Hydra has won the first 2 games.

PGN available here:

http://www.utzingerk.com/m_hydra_shredder.pgn

[Unclestuwantsu]

Yes I've been following Hydra (a replica of Deep Blue) and shredder. What's really weird though is Hydra plays fairly badly against Grandmasters at playchess.com. I remember a German GM friend of mine screename Hits something crushed Hydra in a closed position of the Meran. Well the way to beat computers is passed pawns because they can't calculate that this passed pawn is going to be so much trouble for them. And Hydra surpisingly crushed Shredder with the black pieces with a deadly passed e pawn that caused it to win material.