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Subject: Re: 200 games with same program, 2xhardware, percentage of loss and elo

Author: James T. Walker

Date: 10:40:45 01/07/02

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On January 07, 2002 at 10:22:46, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>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...


Hello Bob,
What is the point of your post?  I don't see what it has to do with the thread.
Can you explain further?  I like learning about stuff like this but you have
confused me.
Jim



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