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Subject: Re: Junior - Crafty NPS Challenge - a user experiment

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 12:52:14 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.


Nobody was talking about going _that_ far.  We are talking about
a pure 10:1 for this match, and a pure 100:1 handicap for the match
Amir and I were talking about.  Not 100:1 +plus+ any hardware advantage
I might get with wild hardware.



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