Author: Uri Blass
Date: 01:57:01 12/06/02
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On December 06, 2002 at 04:44:05, Jorge Pichard wrote: >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. I do not believe in one breaking point. I guess that this is a process and I also believe that it is a slow process. The difference may get down from 50 to 45 and from 45 to 40 but you are not going to see close to 0 returns in the near future. I know that even for correspondence games the difference from faster hardware is more than 0 and I believe that it is more than 20 elo even for correspondence games. Uri
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