Author: Ed Schröder
Date: 08:49:38 03/25/00
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On March 25, 2000 at 08:22:14, blass uri wrote: >suppose you give Fritz6a pentium90(the hardware that Fritz3 used when it won the >world championship)and give it to play against Fritz3 with the best hardware >that it can use today. > >Which program is going win at tournament time control? >The same question is for other programs. > >Do most programmers did bigger software improvement or the main reason that >their program has better rating is the hardware improvement?(I do not include >beginners who did mainly software improvements and I do not include people who >did not work or almost did not work on improving their programs in the last >years). > >I think that Genius3 had a clear advantage against other programs some years ago >and the fact that the programmer did almost nothing to improve his program is >the reason that hardware was dominant in 1994-1997 if you look at the best >program. >(I mean only to programs that people can buy and I ignore cray blitz or deep >thought). > >The reason that people in the israeli league decided that programmers has no >right to do upgrade is that they were afraid that programs will get 200 elo >improvement by an upgrade. > >I explained rami tal that I think that most of the improvement in the last years >if you look only at the best program are by hardware. > >I explained him that theoretically it is possible to do 200 elo improvement but >practically this thing does not happen and an upgrade can probably give >something like 0.5 point in 10 games. > >Uri I think software and hardware go hand in hand but that all the hardware speed-up of the past years is by far superior to software changes. This has been the case since day one and I wonder if it will ever change. Ed
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