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Subject: Re: Wrong math?.

Author: Torstein Hall

Date: 02:29:15 06/17/05

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On June 16, 2005 at 10:42:20, Uri Blass wrote:

>On June 16, 2005 at 10:33:00, Christopher Conkie wrote:
>
>>>I am not sure about it and I think that speed is overestimated.
>>>
>>>Even if Fritz can be 10% slower if you add the code(I doubt it) then it is
>>>translated to less than 10 elo at long time control.
>>
>>1 elo more is enough to win the World Championship.
>>
>>Christopher
>
>I disagree.
>
>1 elo usually means less than half a point in 11 games.
>The important improvement in chess programming are not speed improvement.
>
>Uri

10 ELO is usually about half a point in a tournament. I guess 1 point is aprox.
half a point in 100 games or so. Or am I missing something?

Torstein



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