hippke comments on A closer look at chess scalings (into the past)

[hippke]

OK, I have added the Houdini data from this experiment to the plot:

The baseline ELO is not stated, but likely close to 3200:

Experiment	kNodes/​move	ELO drop	ELO calculated
4k nodes vs 2k nodes	2	303	1280
8k nodes vs 4k nodes	4	280	1583
16k nodes vs 8k nodes	8	237	1863
32k nodes vs 16k nodes	16	208	2100
64k nodes vs 32k nodes	32	179	2308
128k nodes vs 64k nodes	64	156	2487
256k nodes vs 128k nodes	128	136	2643
512k nodes vs 256k nodes	256	134	2779
1024k nodes vs 512k nodes	512	115	2913
2048k nodes vs 1024k nodes	1024	93	3028
4096k nodes vs 2048k nodes	2048	79	3121
Baseline	4096		3200

[paulfchristiano]

The results look quite different for Houdini 3 vs SF8---is this just a matter of Stockfish being much better optimized for small amounts of hardware?