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Roberto Lavieri wrote on Sat, Jul 2, 2005 11:53 PM UTC:
Yes, I have read it after my last comment. In discharge, I reproduce the
Hydra team arguments:'... we played with a very new version of Hydra
Scylla that had been installed two days before the start of the event. It
was not fully tested, and that influenced the results of Hydra Scylla in
the Freestyle tournament....'. But a human with computer aid has proved
being terrific. The winners, two amateurs with ELO ratings around 1300 and
1600 respectively,  have not explained their methods neither the programs
used, they have said they used three computers, that is all, but it was
said somewhere the suspect that a very, very strong grand-master
(Kasparov?) was behind the group, at least offering some help when it was
needed.