Author: Michael Fuhrmann
Date: 11:17:05 12/22/99
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On December 22, 1999 at 13:12:18, James T. Walker wrote: >On December 22, 1999 at 12:07:25, Michael Fuhrmann wrote: > >> >> >>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 . . . > >Hello Michael, >I think it depends on the definition of strength. If you mean strength vs >humans then the line would start out very high and slowly drop off with time. >If you mean strength of finding the best move, then most would start out low and >slowly climb forever. Yes, that is what I mean. And I wonder whether a program has what you could think of as a "sweet spot" on the graph - the point on the graph (40/2?) before the curve starts to significantly flatten out.
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