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Subject: Re: Junior-Crafty hardware user experiment - 2nd game

Author: Daniel Clausen

Date: 04:41:16 11/24/03

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On November 23, 2003 at 17:29:28, Peter Berger wrote:

>For information about setup and rules:
>http://www.talkchess.com/forums/1/message.html?329237

I quote from there:

"Saying that the faster computer is about 10 times faster shouldn't be too
wrong."
and
"With this setup Crafty should be the clear favourite I suppose."

I don't see why Crafty should be the clear favourite here. When I look at the
SSDF list, I see the following ratings:


Junior 8.0 256MB Athlon 1200 MHz        2784
Crafty 18.12/CB 256MB Athlon 1200 MHz   2615

So there's a rating difference of 169 points. A factor of 10 is slightly more
than 3 times doubling and if we use 70 points for each doubling (which is the
upper limit in my opinion) we get the difference (3*70)-169=41 points.

In a match where the first one to reach 6 wins is the winner, that's hardly
"clear favourite". It's more like using a dice to decide something. Or am I
missing something?

Sargon



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