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Subject: Re: Has others seen this type of speed/rating increase?

Author: Enrique Irazoqui

Date: 09:21:35 01/28/99

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On January 28, 1999 at 12:07:44, KarinsDad wrote:

>I've noticed a rating increase from the Pentium 90 MHz to the P200 MMX (as
>expected). This implies that a doubling of the speed (plus bus improvements,
>minus hash table changes, etc.) results in approximately 70 points in increased
>rating as per the derived chart below (these being based on a x2.2).

It is more like a 3x between a P200MMX and a P90, which means than doubling the
speed translates into some 50 points more.

Enrique

>Inc. Program
>87   Hiarcs 6.0
>82   Rebel 9.0
>70   Rebel 8.0
>91   MChess Pro 6.0
>69   Genius 5.0 DOS
>
>Does anyone have a more detailed list of this type of information?
>
>How do the non-commercial programs fair in this regard?
>
>Is there any sort of curve associated with this from previous years (i.e. is the
>rate of this increase decreasing from previous years/earlier processors, or is
>the rate of increase remaining somewhat constant)?
>
>Has anyone done any work in increasing the time per move in order to emulate
>future processor types?
>
>Robert Hyatt has mentioned in a earlier post that on his quad, Crafty is running
>at approximate 1600 Mhz equivalence. Does this mean that Crafty run there is
>about 210 points higher (8x faster = 2^3 or 3x rating point increase) in rating
>strength than Crafty running on a P200 MMX? Or is the rating difference
>considerably less than that?
>
>Thanks
>
>KarinsDad



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