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

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 06:46:02 11/21/03

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On November 21, 2003 at 09:10:37, Robert Allgeuer wrote:

>On November 20, 2003 at 22:44:28, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
>>On November 20, 2003 at 22:41:09, Dann Corbit wrote:
>>
>>>On November 20, 2003 at 22:27:14, Dann Corbit wrote:
>>>
>>>>On November 20, 2003 at 22:21:46, Dann Corbit wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>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
>>>>>
>
>I do believe that the formula should be
>(a.Elo - b.Elo)/ld(1200.0/450) instead of
>(a.Elo - b.Elo)/(1200.0/450.0)
>with ld being the log to the base 2.
>
>With this dataset this would give roughly a median (i.e. Hiarcs) of 69 ELO
>points gain for doubling processor speed, minimum of 38 for Shredder 5.32, max
>95 for Gandalf (under the condition that processor speed really scales linearly
>with the clock rate).
>
>Robert

I believe that it is less than it because 1200/450 is not the right ratio
because there is a difference between faster and bigger.

1200 is usually more than 3 times faster than 450 and I read that for some
programs like gandalf it is about 5 times faster

Uri



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