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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