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Subject: Re: 2x faster is always around 40-50 ELO point more ? I dont think so...

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 05:07:21 07/21/05

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On July 21, 2005 at 07:47:16, Bigler wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>If we take Deep Shredder 9 on a single AMD 3500+ and calculate its ELO by
>letting it play 100’000 tournaments games at tournament time control (40 moves 2
>hours…)
>Then we do the same but with an AMD 64-X2 4600+ which lets say is 2x faster.
>Lets assume that this brings 40 ELO points more.
>
>Now we do the same testing but at blitz time control 3min. + 0sec.
>Should we assume that the ELO difference is the same ??
>
>My assumption is that the margin should be bigger the shorter the time control
>is.
>
>Why, because the deeper the engine goes the more difficulty it will have to go
>deeper.
>
>So know, in the past we used to say that 2x faster is around 50 ELO points more.
>Can we say the same today with e.g. Deep Shredder 9 on a AMD 64-3500+ and AMD
>64-X2 4600+ ?

I think that in the past it was more than 50 elo
I remember estimate of 70 elo.

I guess 40-50 elo is logical today at 120/40.

Uri



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