Author: Georg Langrath
Date: 13:24:35 12/02/00
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On December 02, 2000 at 15:53:08, Chris Taylor wrote: >On December 02, 2000 at 12:06:17, Georg Langrath wrote: > >>It is interesting how strong chesscomputers will be in future only depending on >>hardware. Couldn’t you get an idea if you let two computers play against each >>others with auto 232? One of the computer had usual time controls and the other >>ten times longer time. Then you see what ELO the computer got that had the long >>time controls. In that way you could foresee how strong computers could get, >>when they are ten times faster than today. >> >>Georg > >The chess program on the slower time setting might just benifit from the 10x >plus on the other machine. It will get a ponder advantage, if it chooses the >right move. I would have thought this would sway the results. > >Chris Taylor Yes, you are right. I think you must have pondering off. That is a source of error of course, but as both programs have pondering off the disadvantage is the same for both. And here you only want to get an idea of the speed influence. Georg
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