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

Author: Jens Kahlenberg

Date: 15:03:20 08/19/03

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On August 19, 2003 at 16:22:58, Uri Blass wrote:

>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.


And i think that all calculations based on an IM norm of Fritz3 in 1994 on a p90
are _very_ fuzzy. IMHO only practice can answer the question.


>
>>
>>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


I even don't believe that a marvellous linear function is behind the curtain :-)

Best regards,
jaxx



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