Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 20:48:48 05/19/01
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On May 19, 2001 at 23:37:31, Ratko V Tomic wrote:
>>I'm extremely surprised that my creature managed to survive more
>> than 30 moves, given a 300 times speed handicap.
>
>The flip side is that the current programs running at some
>future machines at 300 GHz won't be able to crush the current
>programs on 1 GHz any more convincingly (in terms of how
>many moves the slower machine can hang on) than what happened
>in this matchup.
>
>This is the same effect that many players have experienced
>when upgrading their hardware to 2-3 times faster one and
>then being disapponted, after all the expense and hopes,
>when they can't even notice any difference in the perceived
>program strength (aginst humans).
You are absolutely right.
I think we are already beginning to experience the effects of dimishing returns
in chess on current hardware at long time controls.
Christophe
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