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Subject: Re: How much time advantage needed? (curious again)

Author: Bas Hamstra

Date: 08:18:21 02/14/00

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So far experiments indicate that 2x speed advantage is pretty significant. But
exactlly how much? Why don't you run a match of 100 games? My bet is the faster
one wins 75%.

For 99% certaincy you probably need at least 10x faster hardware, I think.
Because chess is partly a game of luck and in 100 games the faster engine might
easiliy get killed once because of a rotten openingline. Unless the speed
difference is enormous.

Why don't you try a match and publish the results here?

Regards,
Bas Hamstra.



On February 14, 2000 at 09:12:02, Jari Huikari wrote:

>Autoplaying my program against itself I have tried games in which I gave
>different time controls for black and white. Sometimes the colour having
>less thinking time wins.
>
>Has anyone of you tried to figure out, what would be the probability to
>win if e.g. either colour has twice as long thinking time than the other?
>Or how much time advantage you need to give for one side to be 99% sure
>that it'll win?
>
>					Jari



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