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Subject: Re: SSDF There is something wrong about doubling the speed ?

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 01:18:38 12/06/02

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On December 06, 2002 at 03:47:31, Jorge Pichard wrote:

>On December 05, 2002 at 16:52:06, Roy Eassa wrote:
>
>>1200 MHz Athlon results only:
>
>I read several times that doubling the speed account for at least 50 Rating
>points, but if you consider Chess Tiger 15 performance on a mere K6 450 Mhz
>which is less than half the speed of an AMD Athlon 1.2 Ghz, the difference is
>less than that.

I think that you miss the statistical error and it is also not clear that
you get always at least 50 elo from doubling the speed when the hardware get
faster.

Diminishing returns is possible.

Uri



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