Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 07:22:46 01/07/02
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On January 07, 2002 at 10:02:37, James T. Walker wrote: >It's more or less accepted that a doubling of speed gives only about 50-70 elo >points increase. Therefore your chart makes not sense. If we use a compromise >of say 60 elo increase the 2000Mhz machine would score approximately 58.5%. >Also there is no reason for this percentage to vary with time controls using the >same engine. >Jim Actually there is a _big_ reason why the data came out as it did. Look at anybody's results where they used the _same_ program, but played one copy at depth=N and another at depth N-1. At shallow depths, N wipes N-1 out. As the depth goes deeper, N does't do nearly as well. IE 4ply to 3ply, for the _same_ program, is a 33% deeper search for 4 ply. For 10 ply vs 11 ply, the difference is 10% deeper...
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