Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 10:45:24 05/20/01
Go up one level in this thread
On May 20, 2001 at 13:34:27, william penn wrote:
>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).
>
>
> This is total nonsense, first of all how many of us are strong enough to
>notice a difference in strength when we upgrade, i might not notice an increase
>in strength whereas the strength increase would be obvious to the grandmaster.
>Because i don't percieve a strength increase does not mean one did not occur.
It's not a matter of perceived strength.
It's a matter of results. Results are not as good as expected, and people start
to wonder about dimishing returns.
Christophe
This page took 0 seconds to execute
Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700
Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.