Author: Drexel,Michael
Date: 09:11:44 11/22/03
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On November 22, 2003 at 02:21:12, Russell Reagan wrote: >On November 22, 2003 at 01:32:28, Drexel,Michael wrote: > >>Isn't Junior 8 about 150 ELO stronger than Crafty? >>Assuming 50 ELO per 2x speedup you get? > >According to the SSDF, Crafty 18.12 is 169 ELO below Junior 8. I imagine Crafty >has improved more than 19 ELO from 18.12 to 19.5, but maybe not. > >It also depends on what hardware is used. An Opteron will give Crafty a 60% >boost. A quad Opteron will run Crafty at 8Mnps. If Crafty gets a 10x or 100x >time advantage using a quad Opteron, while Junior runs on its dual or quad >32-bit machine, that is very different from a 10x time advantage on equal >hardware. There is no time advantage in the 'Berger' match AFAIK. It's 'only' hardware advantage. As for the Amir Ban challenge hardware is not that important. See : http://talkchess.com/forums/1/message.html?329266 Michael
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