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Subject: Re: SSDF figures suggest 35 Elo per doubling of speed, not 50 or 80 Elo

Author: Terry McCracken

Date: 23:46:02 11/20/03

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On November 21, 2003 at 02:31:38, Terry Giles wrote:

>On November 20, 2003 at 22:35:43, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
>>as we often see cited.
>>
>>See:
>>http://www.talkchess.com/forums/1/message.html?329011
>
>I believe a six fold increase in cpu speed is required for one extra ply search
>depth - however how that relates to playing strength is problematical. I would
>suggest that there are diminishing returns as the speed and ply depth increase,
>it is unlikely to be of a linear nature.

Very good! You're correct, the _keywords_ are "diminishing returns" and this has
been published in Computer Chess Reports over a decade ago.



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