Author: Jeremiah Penery
Date: 22:10:16 01/26/00
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On January 26, 2000 at 18:23:50, Bruce Moreland wrote: >On January 26, 2000 at 18:10:10, Dann Corbit wrote: > >>IOW, more horsepower is a tough way to make chess programs play better. There >>is also evidence (according to some) that the increase in speed has >>*diminishing* returns. Hence, it may take a terahertz to get there. Don't know >>of any material that could do that, not even a Josephson Junction. > >I think it's a great way. You just take a vacation, preferably a long one, and >when you come back you make one call to Gateway and poof, free Elo points. > >Got an article that shows that the Elo curve flattens out with increased depth? The reason increasing _speed_ has diminishing returns is that the tree grows exponentially. At a certain depth, even a substantial increase in CPU speed will not give you any greater depth, and therefore no Elo improvement. If you do fixed depth experiments, I believe there will always be an Elo increase.
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