Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 11:34:13 03/29/01
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On March 29, 2001 at 14:00:25, Christophe Theron wrote: >On March 29, 2001 at 11:22:49, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On March 28, 2001 at 15:31:57, Christophe Theron wrote: >> > >>yes, it is very probable that 20 years ago a doubling would be worth more >>than 70 points. But it seems to have stabilized to around 70 for a long >>while now. > > >Yes. > >The idea of dimishing returns has not been proved so far, and maybe it is wrong, >who knows. > >One thing we can certainly agree on, is that doubling the speed is not goint to >provide more and more ELO as depth increase. > >So 70 ELO for a doubling is probably an upper bound (at current search depths on >current computers as tested by the SSDF). > > > Christophe > I agree... although I would qualify the 70 as being reasonable for comp vs comp games. I am not sure it is right for comp vs human.
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