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Subject: Re: Relationship of strength and time control

Author: Jari Huikari

Date: 09:45:04 12/22/99

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On December 22, 1999 at 12:07:25, Michael Fuhrmann wrote:

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>
>Imagine a graph where the strength of chess program is the vertical axis and
>time control is the horizontal axis. What would be the shape of the line?
>
>A straight, climbing line, with the program getting stronger as the time control
>lengthens?  Or does the line curve, gradually flattening out beyond a particular
>time control? If the latter, it would be interesting to know where that
>levelling out occurs. In other words, to know that if I play program A at 30 0
>it will be twice as strong as at 15 0, but that at 60 0 it's only 50 per cent
>stronger than at 30 0, and at 120 0 the gain in strength over 60 0 drops to,
>say, 25 per cent . . .

I guess it would look like the curve of logarithm function.

How can you define "twice as strong" playing?

					Jari





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