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Subject: Re: What is the difference in Elo Rating between a 350 MHz vs. Athlon 2000+?

Author: Albert Silver

Date: 04:22:16 01/12/02

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On January 12, 2002 at 00:25:28, Timothy J. Frohlick wrote:

>Assuming a 6 to 8 fold speed up and a 45 to 70 ELO rating increase for each
>doubling of speed then the rating would be about 120 to 200 ELO points.
>
>Incidentally, AMD will have a microprocessor at the end of this decade that is
>10 to 20 times as fast as a PIV 2200 Mhz computer.
>
>Tim

That's nothing. Intel will be out with one that runs at at _least_ 50 times
higher clock speeds. Of course lab testing will show that it will be about 10%
slower than the AMD models, but that's nitpicking.

                                        Albert


>
>On January 11, 2002 at 23:05:38, Brian Katz wrote:
>
>>What is the approximate difference in Elo Rating points between a 350 Mhz vs. an
>>Athlon 2000+ or a Pentium 4 2.2 gig processor, assuming the same chess program
>>is being used?



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