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Subject: Re: Fritz8 at 2 sec a move would beat 99% of the players here?

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 13:22:58 08/19/03

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On August 19, 2003 at 15:02:11, Jens Kahlenberg wrote:

>On August 19, 2003 at 13:36:12, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>On August 19, 2003 at 12:14:04, Jens Kahlenberg wrote:
>>
>>>On August 19, 2003 at 09:21:11, Uri Blass wrote:
>>>
>>>>On August 18, 2003 at 14:47:26, Jens Kahlenberg wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On August 18, 2003 at 01:27:55, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>[snip]
>
>>>>>>Fritz3 already got the IM norm on p90 at 120/40 time control.
>>>>>>even without considering software improvements
>>>>>>3 minutes per move on p90 is equivalent to 10 seconds per move with the hardware
>>>>>>of today
>>>>>>
>>>>>>if we assume that 10 seconds per move is 2400 than 2 seconds per move is above
>>>>>>2000 even if you assume 100 elo for doubling the speed and I did not consider
>>>>>>the fact that the human play worse when (s)he has less time to ponder and that
>>>>>>the computer play better when it has more time to ponder.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>My guess is that when you consider also the software improvement from fritz3 to
>>>>>>the top programs of today you get that the top programs of today can perform at
>>>>>>IM level if they are allowed to use only 2 seconds per move.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>Hi Uri,
>>>>>
>>>>>I don't think so. IMHO even FM-level should be enough to survive the middlegame
>>>>>generally with a not totally drawn position if top engines have only 2 seconds
>>>>>per move, because they can't get deep enough to outsearch their opponent in
>>>>>tactical issues. In the endgame the engines will have a hard time to even draw a
>>>>>drawn game at that rate of play.
>>>>>
>>>>>Regards,
>>>>>Jens
>>>>
>>>>Fritz3(p90) already did the IM norm in 1994.
>>>>
>>>>Now even if you assume no pondering of more than 2 seconds Fritz3(p90) 180
>>>>seconds per move is equivalent to Fritz3(hardware that is 20 times faster) 9
>>>>seconds per move
>>>>and Fritz3(9 seconds per move) is probably at similiar level to top programs of
>>>>today (2 seconds per move)
>>>>
>>>>Uri
>>>
>>>
>>>If i get your "calculation" right, Fritz3 on usual hardware (not those 8-16
>>>processors SMP-machines) _must_ have the strength to compete with Kasparov at
>>>normal rate of play. Ergo: Top engines on SMP-hardware _must_ kill him?!
>>
>>No
>>
>>Fritz3 on p90 is at FM/IM level
>>Fritz3 on usual hardware is probably GM level(anti computer experts may beat it
>>but most players play their normal game when they play a computer).
>
>
>Sorry Uri,
>
>i didn't know that your exact calculation just holds for one direction. Shame on
>me because i estimated the stupid other direction:
>
>Fritz3 on p90 is IM (2350 ELO) at normal rate of play. And doubling the speed
>four times seduced me to the wrong assumption that Fritz3 on a 1.44 GHz machine
>should reach 2750 ELO ... enough to compete with Kasparov.

I think that your assumption about the difference in elo from doubling the speed
is wrong against humans.

>
>But now i fear that you must've been right as took the other direction and
>wrote:
>
>> Fritz3 already got the IM norm on p90 at 120/40 time control
>> control. Even without considering software improvements
>> 3 minutes per move on p90 is equivalent to 10 seconds per
>> move with the hardware of today
>>
>> if we assume that 10 seconds per move is 2400 than 2 seconds
>> per move is above 2000 even if you assume 100 elo for doubling
>> the speed
>
>Perhaps i'll never understand this difficult ELO algebra for computer chess :-(

I said even if you assume 100 elo for doubling(my assumption is that 100 elo is
only upper bound and it can be less than it).

Uri



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