Author: blass uri
Date: 05:22:14 03/25/00
suppose you give Fritz6a pentium90(the hardware that Fritz3 used when it won the world championship)and give it to play against Fritz3 with the best hardware that it can use today. Which program is going win at tournament time control? The same question is for other programs. Do most programmers did bigger software improvement or the main reason that their program has better rating is the hardware improvement?(I do not include beginners who did mainly software improvements and I do not include people who did not work or almost did not work on improving their programs in the last years). I think that Genius3 had a clear advantage against other programs some years ago and the fact that the programmer did almost nothing to improve his program is the reason that hardware was dominant in 1994-1997 if you look at the best program. (I mean only to programs that people can buy and I ignore cray blitz or deep thought). The reason that people in the israeli league decided that programmers has no right to do upgrade is that they were afraid that programs will get 200 elo improvement by an upgrade. I explained rami tal that I think that most of the improvement in the last years if you look only at the best program are by hardware. I explained him that theoretically it is possible to do 200 elo improvement but practically this thing does not happen and an upgrade can probably give something like 0.5 point in 10 games. Uri
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