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Subject: Re: Doubling of thinking time, greater benefits for dedicated computers?

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 16:50:12 11/20/03

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On November 20, 2003 at 18:57:24, J. C. Boco wrote:

>Doubling the processor speed or the time for thinking adds about 80 points to
>the SSDF-computer-ratings.  But PC's are already running so fast that doubling
>their speed might mean searching at 15ply instead of 14ply.

How do you get it?

Based on the ssdf list even being 3 times faster does not give 80 elo.
A1200 is often more than 3 times faster than K6-450

Uri



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