Hydra Match
In June 2005, Adams took on an advanced chess super computer called Hydra in a six-game match in London, England, with a prize of $10,000 for each draw and $25,000 for each win.
Hydra, housed in Abu Dhabi, at the time of the match consisted of 64 PCs each running 3.06 GHz Intel Xeon processors. Its designers said that it could, under optimal conditions, analyse up to 200 million positions a second, and, in the endgame, calculate up to 40 moves ahead.
Adams lost the match, drawing only the second game. The final score was Hydra 5½, Adams ½, with Adams only receiving $10,000 of the $145,000 prize fund.
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