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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