Editing Michael Adams (chess player) (section)

== Hydra match ==

In June 2005, Adams took on the chess [[supercomputer]] [[Hydra (chess)|Hydra]] in a six-game match in London, England, with a prize of $10,000 for each draw and $25,000 for each win.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=2476 |title=Adams 0.5 – Hydra 5.5 |date=28 June 2005 |publisher=Chessbase.com |access-date=2011-12-17}}</ref> Hydra, housed in [[Abu Dhabi]] at the time of the match, consisted of 64 PCs, each running 3.06 [[Hertz|GHz]] [[Intel]] [[Xeon]] processors. Its designers said that it could, under optimal conditions, analyse up to 200&nbsp;million positions a second and, in the [[chess endgame|endgame]], calculate up to 40 moves ahead.<ref>[http://news.zdnet.co.uk/emergingtech/0,1000000183,39199948,00.htm?r=1 ZD Online News Article] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090207025337/http://news.zdnet.co.uk/emergingtech/0,1000000183,39199948,00.htm?r=1 |date=7 February 2009 }} retrieved 26 September 2007</ref> 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.