Author: Wayne Lowrance
Date: 06:47:58 04/11/00
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On April 11, 2000 at 06:04:48, Graham Laight wrote: >On SSDF, Crafty is rated as 2624 on a 450 Mhz PC. > >Generally, a doubling of processor speed results in an improvement of 60 elo. > >So, if Crafty were put on a 900 Mhz PC with 4 processors, it could achieve 3 >doublings, or 180 elo improvement, to get a rating of 2804. > I am not sure that is right. Going from 1 to 2 cpu's that is one doubling. and if you "double a double" I think that should count as only a second double. Sounds _logical_ to me. >However, there are some flies in this ointment: > >* the SSDF ratings are disputed relative to humans. Hopefully, the current spate >of games in Israel will clear this up. > >* Unlike his game against DB, GK would have profound knowledge about how Crafty >plays before the competition started. Bob would have to be persuaded to >implement some sort of "anti-grandmaster" features. > >* Adding extra processors does not, in reality, give you a linear increase in >computer strength > >-g > >On April 10, 2000 at 20:01:57, Jorge Pichard wrote: > >>In tournament time control it will take a least another 3 Years for a P.C. Chess >>Software to be able to beat Kasparov in Tournament time control, only if by then >>either Intel or AMD organize an interesting Chess match which will encourage >>Kasparov to play against the best P.C. Chess Software then. I strongly believe >>that at least it will take a Dual 3 Ghz SMP To beat Kasparov.
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