Author: Russell Reagan
Date: 00:07:21 10/05/02
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On October 05, 2002 at 02:01:41, pavel wrote: >Hey Russel, > Like few others, you seem to spend a lot of time questioning about >problems with your chess program, which gives me the impression that you spend a >reasonably good amount of time to make your program better. > >So how far is your progress? >Tell us something about your program. > >And Good Luck! ;) > >cheers, >pavs Well, if you looked at what I have so far, you probably wouldn't think I'd spent much time working on it. But that's only because you wouldn't have seen the previous dozens of versions that I've thrown away. I don't know if I'm a perfectionist or if I'm obsessive compulsive, but I do have a tendency to get pretty far along with a program, discover something I don't like, and start over from scratch in frustration. My other problem is that I get way ahead of myself. I'll still be working on writing a bitboard move generator (or something else pretty basic) and I'll be spending my time thinking about new forward pruning ideas and stuff I won't be able to test for a long time. So if I get a new idea, all of the sudden writing something simple like a move generator doesn't seem as fun or interesting, so I lose interest for a while and end up playing too many video games. But I always come back :) So my "progress" is that I have a lot of ideas down on paper, a few notebooks full, but my current program doesn't even play chess yet. I've only been working on this version for a few weeks though. Up until this version I was mostly doing "classic" stuff like 0x88, but I've started messing with bitboards and so I've got a lot of new ideas to try out and keep me busy for a while. As you can see I have a tendency to get off on tangents, like trying to get my program that doesn't play chess to compile in linux :) Just tonight I was thinking about ideas for an SMP program, even though I know next to nothing about the current SMP techniques, and I only have a single cpu machine. I guess it's a blessing and a curse that I am so curious about this kind of stuff. It takes up a lot of time, but I have a lot of ideas (but I don't guarentee any of them are good). Russell
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