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Subject: Re: SSDF DF7 K6 vs DSj 1.5a A1200 (22 - 24) Conclusion?

Author: James T. Walker

Date: 11:19:03 01/01/04

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On January 01, 2004 at 10:50:32, George Tsavdaris wrote:

>On January 01, 2004 at 09:24:39, Kurt Utzinger wrote:
>
>>Is this
>>
>>a)
>>A further example that hardware is less important
>>than most people think
>>
>>or
>>
>>b)
>>a sign that Deep Fritz 7 is very much stronger
>>than Deep Sjeng 1.5
>>
>>or
>>
>>c)
>>other reasons?
>
>I think b) is a valid statement.
>
>Also a) is valid but it depends from what do you mean by "than most people
>think".  In my opinion if Deep Fritz 7 played on 1200 MHz too, it would win
>easily.
>
>The main question is what engine is better:
>--------------------------------------------------------------------------
>a) An engine A of 1999 with two years "code" improvement(so engine A in 2001),
>playing on hardware of year 1999.
>
>B) An engine A of 1999, playing on hardware of year 2001.
>
>That means: a 2-year hardware improvement or a 2-year code improvement is
>more important?
>
>In my opinion there is no clear answer, because it depends on the engine A and
>the improvement on hardware.

The last time I "averaged" the increase for programs from the K6-2/450 to the
AMD1200 it was about 105 Elo points.
Jim



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