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Subject: Re: SSDF-database

Author: Tony Hedlund

Date: 03:25:09 01/24/98

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On January 23, 1998 at 14:44:21, Howard Exner wrote:

>On January 20, 1998 at 09:30:54, Tony Hedlund wrote:
>
>>Hi!
>>
>>157 new games at: http://userweb.interact.se/~tonyh/welcome.htm.
>>
>>Now with MCP71 and Nimzo98 games.
>
>Thanks again for posting the games.
>I noticed quite a steep hardware gap in the P200 MMX with
>60 MB hash versus the P90 with 10 MB hash. This looks even steeper
>than the past P90 vs 486-66MHz games.
>
>Are you finding that doubling the computer hardware speed today gives
>less of a strength increase than doublings in the past.

Rather the opposite. The increase between P200 MMX and P90 is now 76
points.
I belivie it's the highest ever.

>The common
>knowledge was that doubling a 486-33 meant about 60 extra rating points.
>What would doubling a P200 give?

I've no idea.


Regards
  Tony



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