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Subject: Re: Symbolic: Status report 2005.04.10 {Question about availability}

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 08:18:54 04/11/05

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On April 11, 2005 at 11:05:47, Steven Edwards wrote:

>On April 11, 2005 at 10:34:10, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
>>I am curious if any parts of your engine (e.g. the C++ part) will become
>>available for experimentation.
>
>At the moment I am undecided as to how much of the toolkit source should be
>released.  I will likely delay my decision on this until the programming effort
>is completed and the Big Paper has been written.  My main reason for this is
>that I simply do not have the capability to answer even a small fraction of the
>support request e-mail that would be sure to come, just as has come in the past
>for other chess source I've released.

Where will the paper be published?

>On the other hand, a big motivator for the Symbolic project is to show how a
>cognitive search is a viable alternative to a traditional A/B search, and this
>is going to take a lot of documentation including at least some source and
>plenty of search narratives.  I'll be uploading some of this to my website along
>with a FAQ; this will have to suffice until the Big Paper is published.

I would be curious to see a graph of the project's Elo, as a function of added
functionality.



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