Author: Tony Asdourian
Date: 15:55:47 01/15/99
Hello. I've been reading these postings for a couple of months now, and one question has never been directly answered to my satisfaction. I started buying chess computers(all from ICD(!), at least two of them from Steven Schwartz) back with Chess Challenger 7, and over the years have (with great pleasure) purchased Mephisto II, Novag Forte, Novag SuperExpert C, Saitek RISC 2500, and finally Genius 3, by far the strongest, almost absurdly so. Enough intro, now to my question. Recent postings have indicated that Genius 6 is not really a stronger chess engine than Genius 3; that is, if Genius 3 ran on Pentium II 450 Mhz processors, it would get very similar results to Genius 6. This got me to thinking-- if old programs, like RISC 2500, were to run at present day speeds, how well would they play? I know that the question is complicated, becasue of hash tables, hardware vs. software, and a million other reasons, but if one were to imagine these older programs as "software" and sped up to modern day speeds, APPROXIMATELY what ELO rating would they deserve? Would the, for example, RISC 2500, be within 200 points of Rebel 10? I know it's sort of an odd question, but the best educated guesses I could get would be very interesting to me, as it would give me a sense of how much the present day programs really have improved their chess knowledge, and how much is just brute force.
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