Author: Will Singleton
Date: 20:37:38 12/15/01
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On December 15, 2001 at 15:39:19, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: >On December 15, 2001 at 12:47:50, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: > >>On December 15, 2001 at 12:16:00, Will Singleton wrote: >> >>>What would you characterize as the biggest improvement you made? >> >>I realized there was no single big improvement waiting >>to be made. > >Hmm, I realize that wasn't very helpfull in itself, so I'll clarify: > >There is no single thing you can fiddle with and make >your program suddenly a lot stronger. > >It's a process of making steps. Big steps. Small steps. >Sometimes you need to make small steps before you can >make a big step. > >Prioritizing may be the issue. A good method is to try >to determine why you are losing games. Are you constantly >missing tactics other people see? Are you getting attacked >and crushed? Are you blowing endgames? > >Fix the weakest link. > >When you are not progressing as good or as fast as you'd >like to, it helps to take a step back and consider not just >your engine, but the whole process of working on it and see >where improvements can be made. > >-- >GCP Ah, a serious chess programmer. I, on the other hand, would like my prog to be good, but don't want to spend the time to fix it. But that's what's good about these CCT tournaments, they get me to put some time in. I know my prog is full of bugs, I even fixed one the other day. I fully intend to rewrite my search using ab fail-soft, and fix the hash table, which now returns haphazard results. Then, if Apple actually releases a faster machine at the Steve show in January, and I can order it in time for CCT4, then I may be able to compete. Or, if someone wanted to help me port to Windows, then I could run a bit faster. Any poor volunteers email me. Will
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