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Subject: Re: Some thoughts for those who are considering to buy a Dual processor PC

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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