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

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 19:21:46 11/20/03

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On November 20, 2003 at 19:50:12, Uri Blass wrote:

>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

This query:
SELECT a.engine, (a.Elo - b.Elo)/(1200.0/450.0) AS EloDiff
FROM Ssdf AS a, Ssdf AS b
WHERE a.Engine = b.Engine

And
   a.Hardware like "*1200 MHz*"

And
   b.Hardware like "*450 Mhz*"

Order by  (a.Elo - b.Elo)/(1200.0/450.0) Desc

Returns this result set:

engine	EloDiff
Gandalf 4.32h	50.625
Crafty 18.12/CB	50.25
Gandalf 5.0	42
Fritz 7.0	42
Deep Fritz 7.0	41.25
Rebel Century 4.0	40.125
Hiarcs 8.0	36.75
Chess Tiger 14.0 CB	32.25
Gambit Tiger 2.0	27.375
Deep Fritz	25.125
Junior 7.0	22.875
Chess Tiger 15.0	20.625
Shredder 5.32	20.25

And this query:

SELECT sum((a.Elo-b.Elo)/(1200/450))/count((a.Elo-b.Elo)/(1200/450)) AS
EloDiffAverage
FROM Ssdf AS a, Ssdf AS b
WHERE a.Engine=b.Engine And a.Hardware Like "*1200 MHz*" And b.Hardware Like
"*450 Mhz*";

Gives this result:
34.7307692308

~35 ELO per doubling seems like what we might expect.  Give or take a large
error bar.




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