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Subject: Re: What's my Elo rating with a AMD K6-2 450 MHz?

Author: Shep

Date: 00:31:41 06/22/99

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On June 21, 1999 at 23:18:09, John R. Menke, Sr. wrote:

>Greetings,
>I have a chance to buy a AMD K6-2 450 MHz with 64MB RAM and 6.4GB hard drive for
>$750 (US), including shipping & taxes. I'm very tempted. I'm getting tired of
>being the slowest kid on the block with this old i486 dx/2 66Mz, although it has
>given good service for the past five years. My big question is: What Elo chess
>rating will this give me with some popular chess playing software titles such as
>Chessmaster 6000 and Hiarcs 7.32?  I'm guessing it will be in the 2550-2600 Elo
>range.  Is that about right???  I note that Shep assigns those titles a 2600+
>Elo rating with a 550MHz Pentium system.

Still I have to note that a) these are just estimates based on performance in
the Louguet suite (which inflates ratings for programs such as LGG2) and b) I do
not explicitly call them "Elo" ratings because that would spark yet another
discussion whether computers are already at that level against humans (and I
wisely stay out of that :-).
Think of it as "Computer ELO" without any real significance with regard to their
performance against humans.

---
Shep



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