Author: Jorge Pichard
Date: 01:44:05 12/06/02
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On December 06, 2002 at 04:18:38, Uri Blass wrote: >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 That is true, but it would be interesting to find out what is the breaking point where the diminishing returns take effect, there has to be a breaking point in hardware's speed where the difference in speed no longer is important. Pichard.
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