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Subject: Re: How many ELO-points can i expect for getting an Engine 20% faster

Author: Russell Reagan

Date: 11:40:53 11/20/03

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On November 20, 2003 at 14:26:00, Juergen Wolf wrote:

>if an engine-version is 20% faster than its predecessor and nothing else has
>been changed how can this be translated into (expected) ELO-improvement.

I've heard 2x speedup = 50 ELO
I've heard 2x speedup = 70 ELO
I've heard 5x speedup = 200 ELO

Making an educated guess based on these numbers, I'd say you would get about
50-80 ELO from a 2x speedup. Best case, you get 80 for a 2x speedup, which is 16
ELO for a 20% speedup. Worst case is that you get a 10 ELO improvement. In other
words, it is not that significant, but certainly you always want to be faster
(assuming everything else is equal, and you don't make your code hard to read or
maintain or introduce bugs).



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