Author: Serge Desmarais
Date: 12:38:45 08/31/98
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On August 31, 1998 at 14:52:53, Mark Young wrote: >On August 31, 1998 at 08:46:41, Jouni Uski wrote: > >>> >>>Do not forget that Rebel10 had better hardware than Junior5. >>>Rebel10 had better hardware than pentium400 in the match against anand >>>when Junior had only pentium333. >>> >>>Uri >>> >> >>Yes, but K6-450 is only about 30 % faster than P333. 200+ rating difference >>means 1000% speed-up in hardware!! >> >I would bet that even with 1000% increase in speed there is no way junior5 would >get anywhere close to a 200 rating point jump in strength. If this was the case, >why improve chess programs at all. Just wait a few years till we have micro >computers that runs 2000% faster and play Kasparov for the title. >>Jouni As I know, the stremght curve gets more flat as the rating improves linked with CPU/search depth increase. Serge Desmarais
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