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Subject: Re: One marginal remark on DB vs micro...

Author: Dave Gomboc

Date: 11:59:01 06/01/99

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On June 01, 1999 at 10:04:44, blass uri wrote:

>
>On June 01, 1999 at 08:59:46, Andrew Dados wrote:
>
>>   It's interesting to see how many people here oppose SSDF testing because of
>>speed advantage, say 3 times, between hardware (P90 vs P200) leading to match
>>scores like 14:4 (more or less -  threads on subject emerge regularly)  and yet
>>refuse to estimate  thousandfold speed difference impact 'correctly'.... Common
>>sense can be misleading...
>
>This speed advantage leads to difference of less than 100 elo and 14:4 is
>difference of more than 200 elo.
>
>The expected result between p200 and p90 is not 14:4 but something like
>11:7 or 10.5:7.5
>
>We cannot learn from these results to estimate thousandfold speed difference
>impact 'correctly' because the difference in rating may go down.

I say we break out the 386s and do some autoplaying with them against K2-450 :-)

It would be funny to see how quickly one program could crush the other.

Dave



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