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Subject: Re: This is great news, thanks Christophe.

Author: Jorge Pichard

Date: 10:18:25 10/30/02

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On October 30, 2002 at 11:27:29, O. Veli wrote:

>On October 29, 2002 at 12:28:10, Jorge Pichard wrote:
>
>>On October 29, 2002 at 11:38:30, Christophe Theron wrote:
>>
>>>This will give probably a 150 elo points increase.
>>
>>there will be faster palms running up to 400 Mhz next year. This means that
>>Chess Tiger could even reach up to 2400 in Elo rating points.
>
>  I suspect that. If we go with the double the speed, increase 70 point rule, CT
>should go from 2100 on a 42 Mhz Palm to around 2250 on 200 Mhz Palm. It would be
>2320 on 400 Mhz Palm, and 2390 on 800 Mhz. These are of course estimates.
>
>  Top programs on Pentium 90 on the latest SSDF are:
>
>  65 Chess Tiger 11.8  Pentium 90 MHz        2382   43   -43   261   50%  2383
>  70 Rebel 9.0 Pentium 90 MHz                2335   23   -23   890   47%  2357
>  71 Hiarcs 6.0 Pentium 90 MHz               2333   18   -18  1437   51%  2329
>  72 Genius 5.0 DOS Pentium 90 MHz           2329   18   -18  1558   47%  2348
>  74 MChess Pro 6.0 Pentium 90 MHz           2310   17   -17  1726   45%  2343
>  80 Nimzo 3.5 Pentium 90 MHz                2293   22   -22   998   46%  2323
>  82 Junior 4.0 Pentium 90 MHz               2287   22   -22  1035   42%  2342
>  82 Chessmaster 5000 Pentium 90 MHz         2287   49   -45   240   67%  2162
>  84 Shredder 1.0 Pentium 90 MHz             2282   59   -58   145   53%  2263
>  85 Nimzo 3.0  Pentium 90 MHz               2279   26   -25   767   58%  2221
>
>  Let us assume that above programs' average is 2300. Granted that CT 15 is more
>sophistaced than CT 11.8, but can a Palm program on a 200-400 MHz Palm be as
>strong as a chess program on a Pentium 90? I have no idea about chip designs,
>but I guestimate that a chip designed for a desktop, even if it is 5-6 years
>old, can make up for the difference in speed compared to a chip designed to be a
>help application.

Good question, here you can compare Chess Genius 1 on a 486 66 Mhz to Chess
Genius 1.5  on a palm operasting at 42 Mhz which is a newer program made several
years later but using an inferior hardware.

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