Author: Eugene Nalimov
Date: 16:19:00 12/16/00
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You are really saying that today it's possible to write a program for a 20-years old computer that will be 40*20==800 Elo points stronger than a 20-years old program? I.e. 800 points stronger than Sargon or Rebel for Aplle II *running on the same hardware*? Eugene On December 16, 2000 at 17:53:24, Christophe Theron wrote: >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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