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Subject: Re: In Terms Of GMs, Have PCs Hit A Brick Wall?

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 09:51:23 10/10/00

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On October 10, 2000 at 12:42:11, Howard Exner wrote:

>On October 10, 2000 at 12:38:19, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>On October 10, 2000 at 12:26:14, Howard Exner wrote:
>>
>>>"Looks like a doubling of NPS no longer provides an extra 50 Elo rating against
>>>humans - nothing even close, in fact." - g
>>>
>>>I've never subscribed to that for comp vs human. Many have proposed that the +50
>>>or so gain is valid for comp vs comp. That I can live with. For humans maybe
>>>it's closer to 15-20 for doubling?
>>
>>For comp-comp it seems to be at least +70 for doubling based on the ssdf
>>results.
>>For comp-humans I believe it is at least +30.
>>
>>Uri
>
>Is that for just a speed double, or a speed double plus a new program version?

Just for a speed double.
You can see the rating of some programs like Junior5,Fritz5.32,Hiarcs7.32.

I remember that the difference between P200 and K6-450 was 70 elo rating and
even slightly more than it.

The K6-450 is twice faster(not exactly but there was not a big difference)

Uri



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