Author: Stuart Cracraft
Date: 08:10:14 09/19/04
Hi -- I am looking for 2 or 3 beta testers who would receive
(full) source code to my program and in return would provide
input and comments about improving the search. They would
simply agree not to redistribute it and in fact discard it after
a week or two of looking at it (and commenting.) The program is in C,
5000 lines. The search and quiescence routines are 600 lines total.
The reason I am considering this is due to hitting a brick wall at 249/300
on WAC for several weeks now and knowing there are things I just cannot
find or go further with. The above score is at 1 second per position on a
1ghz P3 with a small transposition table. I am told that 270-300 is considered
"good" for this time control on this test. On this same machine
at the same time setting, with WAC, Crafty gets 270/300.
The kind of beta testers I'm looking for are experienced programmers
who have written their own program and it has long since graduated
from Win-at-Chess as a test suite, perhaps scoring 270 or above at
1 second per move on a Pentium III 1ghz or above. To them, WAC has
become ho-hum and in fact they are currently just sitting on their
laurels without a lot of major advances. Their program has "matured."
They see themselves as senior chess programmers helping less
experienced authors.
What I would favor
1) beta tester with solid program agrees to simultaneous exchange
of source code
--and--
2) beta tester agrees to seriously review the quiesce(), search(),
store(), retrieve(), and iterate() functions.
I am fine to sign any non-disclosure agreement.
This is just an attempt to break through a brick wall.
Stuart
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