Author: Brian Richardson
Date: 07:37:37 12/16/99
A few weeks ago there were some posts about an ICC Winter tournament with tentative dates in late Jan and early Feb at 75 10, as I recall. What is the status of this event? Also, I am hoping to get some suggestions on the "most important" next features to add to my program, either in general, or to prepare for this tournament. My (as yet unnamed--I know boring--I can really relate to Insomniac), program has the following features: basic TSCP-type search (iterative deepening and history with full quiesce) with usable subset of Winboard support, non-rotated bitmaps, simple hashing (only one table, simple draft replacement), null moves, killers, internal iterative deepening, and some (hopefully significant) eval changes. Also draws by repitition are supported and rudimentary time controls. Enormous thanks to Crafty, TSCP, and Winboard authors. Using LCT II and BT2630 shows it has improved to about 2200, although I have yet to really test it on ICC. Of course, there is still a long list of things to add (nevermind to tune), including at least: pawn hashing, pondering, books, and learning. So, my question is what would people recommend that I work on next? I was thinking pondering would be essential for a tournament (and ICC use), but there may be other more significant things. Incidentally, I still find bugs like >2 instead of >>2, or = instead of ==, or unsigned int vs just int playing havoc, and "little" changes like doing hash probes BEFORE in check testing (saved 30%, sigh). Do others with more experience still run into these situations ?
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