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Subject: Re: Intelligent questions please!!

Author: Steve Maughan

Date: 08:21:11 11/25/01

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Victor,

>1994
>
>WChess (Pentium 90 !) makes a 2895 !!! performance rating
>against Grandmasters at Fifth Harvard Cup.
>
>2001
>Chess Tiger 14 866 Mhz, 256 Mb RAM, performance rating
>2788 at Republica Argentina. (It is only an example )
>
>7 years of difference in development of algorithms, and a
>increase of 776 Mhz they are translated in -107 Elo ?.

There is no doubt that Tiger is better than WChess (using equal hardware) so I
don't think your question is appropriate.  I don't really think you even believe
that WChess on a P90 would beat Kramnik by a ratio of 2:1 in a series of 100
tournament games i.e. has a rating of 2895.  A better question would be why did
WChess in 1994 get such a high performance rating?  The answer probably lies
with the GM who most likely underestimated the strength or had an off day.


>What Elo would obtain against GM's any current Top chessprogram
>in a P90 with 64 Mb RAM ?.

My guess would be 2600 - 70 * (ln(30)/ln(2)) = 2260

>My question is , when they will stop to cut code the programmers
>(with honorable exceptions) and to begin to develop programs a
>bit intelligent, or we will have to wait to have at home hardware
>with 256 processors and 10 TB RAM to be able to see to play chess ?.

Maybe you could do better?

Regards,

Steve



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