Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 10:55:06 09/27/00
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On September 27, 2000 at 02:38:27, Uri Blass wrote: >On September 25, 2000 at 20:06:29, Jorge Pichard wrote: > >>On September 25, 2000 at 18:30:33, José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba wrote: >> >>>On September 24, 2000 at 22:34:50, Jorge Pichard wrote: >>> >>>>Of course that my second choice would have to be the King an experimental >>>>version of the future CM8000. >>>> >>>>http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/thstorm/partic00.htm >>>> >>>>Pichard. >>> >>> This will be a very hard-fought tournament. I expect interesting games and an >>>undecided tournament till the very last round. >>>José. >> >>If frans decides to change hardware and replace the 2 Celeron 433 Mhz with a >>dual Pentium III of a least 700 Mhz then Quest would definitively have an easy >>win, But as it is Quest would end up in fourth place after Tiger with luck. >> >> >>Pichard. > >I think that you overrate hardware. > >I expect the hardware difference that you suggest to give quest only 1/2 point >in 10 games. > >The difference between 433 and 700(I assume speed ratio of 700/433) is only >about 40 elo difference. > >Uri It is of course heavily dependant upon the depth the program searches. if you search 6 ply, then a 2 fold increase in hardware is deadly. if you search already like 13 ply or so like Fritz does, then getting faster hardware hardly is interesting. If you get like 9 ply which i do with diep in some middlegames (rest 10 to 11 hopefully and in endagme even more) then it really is important still, because many quiet moves are seen between the 9 to 12 plies. Vincent
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