Author: Georg Langrath
Date: 22:43:32 06/14/01
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On June 14, 2001 at 20:22:44, Jonathan Lee wrote: >I have a SSDF list dating back February 1993 through snail mail. > >When was the first one? >Is there a website having the older SSDF lists? > >Here's a statistic: In the last 8 years (1993-2001) there has been an >improvement of more than forty SSDF points per year. >Jonathan (133 message) The first list was in the Swedish Chesscomputer magazine PLY 1984. Of course no autoplaying. There were only table computers. That year came Novag Super Constellation that was the strongest for a while. Although it is 17 years ago these computers were rather strong, the latter about 1700 in ELO rating. Super Constellation was the first computer that could do positional sacrifices and it played a little as Gambit Tiger. It would be fun if that program could be translated to modern hardware. About your statistic. In PLY there was the conclusion that if you doubled the fastness of hardware there was an improvement of about 70 ELO rating. If that still is true most of the improvements are depending of faster hardware, I think. Georg
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