Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 14:53:24 12/16/00
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On December 15, 2000 at 08:51:53, walter irvin wrote:
>On December 15, 2000 at 05:59:54, Severi Salminen wrote:
>
>>On December 14, 2000 at 21:55:24, walter irvin wrote:
>>
>>>where will the next elo jump come from hardware or software??????????
>>
>>What do you mean? What was the last elo jump you saw? What is an elo jump? 1
>>elo, 10 elos 1000 elos? The answer to your question must be: from forest in form
>>of the Elo Rabbit!
>>
>>Severi
>your response proves one point that i have believed for a while .that there
>really has not been any measureable improvements by chess programmers lately
>.the old saying that if you keep doing what you are doing you will keep getting
>what you are getting applies to chess programming .i dont think that is going to
>change so i believe hardware is the only chance for a elo jump which i would
>define as at least 150 elo .
When is the last time you have seen a 150 elo jump?
Each year programs improve from 30 to 50 elo or more (of course not taking
hardware improvements into account) and you dare to say that "there really has
not been any measureable improvements by chess programmers lately"???
Thanks a lot for supporting our efforts.
Christophe
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