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Subject: Re: Linear rating increase w/ linear speed increase?

Author: Tom Kerrigan

Date: 17:07:41 01/27/00

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On January 27, 2000 at 20:03:49, Dann Corbit wrote:

>That's a good idea.  However, I think for the SSDF lists, the programs at
>different MHz are usually different versions.  I.e. the Fritz and 90MHz is not
>going to be the Fritz at 450 MHz.  So the experiment does not have changes in
>speed alone but also programming.  So is an ELO increase due to speed or to
>algorithms or to both, and if so what is the split?

Hmm, I hadn't thought of that. So it might not answer exactly what you want, but
I think it would still be a good experiment.

Besides, we don't have to assume that programs will stop improving in the
future. =)

-Tom

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