Author: Stuart Cracraft
Date: 09:25:15 04/01/99
Maybe it's just my imagination but having been working on a program that tests on FICS, I've had a devil of a time getting the rating up signficantly over 2000 on the FICS server. Usually it will get up to 2010-2040 and then evoke some interesrt in some stronger types and get pounded down to 1970-2000 before it creeps up enough to get the stronger ones interested again (re-pounding, etc.) What's special about 2000 on FICS? Maybe just a typical barrier for a program? If there is (or isn't) anything special about it, then I'm wondering what I could do short of increasing my hardware. It's an old Pentium 133mhz but I don't want to spend the money to upgrade it and would rather improve the program. The usual: PVS, null-move, hashing. Evaluation consists of about 50 terms. Evaluation is done at the leafs rather than pc/sq style for the most part. If you need further details, feel free to ask. Code available. --Stuart
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