Author: Michael Henderson
Date: 10:32:01 09/19/04
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On September 19, 2004 at 11:10:14, Stuart Cracraft wrote: >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 Ok this is really just a joke Stuart, but what results do you get for 2 second searches? If you do get better results, then a 2x slower solve rate nothing to be worried about esp if under 2 secs :) Michael
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