Author: martin fierz
Date: 11:03:52 09/19/04
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[snip] hi stuart, you seem to be very active programming your engine if the number of posts here at CCC is any indication. i guess you have put in all the basic stuff in your engine, and now it's playing some decent chess but is getting bashed on by the stronger engines, and you're not happy. i made a similar experience. after years of checkers programming, i started writing a chess program, which played it's first game about one month after i started on it, and improved in leaps and bounds for a couple of months, which was no big surprise to me since i'm rather familar with most of the techniques for chess programming from my checkers program. after half a year progress got slower, and after 9 months i couldn't detect any progress any more. i let it lie around for half a year now, and will try to find areas of improvement. but i think that from now on, progress is not so simple any more. i will have to take a good look at my evaluation for instance, and at the various extensions, and do a lot of testing. i don't believe there is any magic bullet that will do the trick. once you reach a certain level, every further improvement will have to be earned the hard way. in this sense, i encourage you to keep working on your engine, without resorting to this kind of 'senior programmer to the rescue' attitude! cheers martin
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