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Maybe it's better using sqlite, as long as you aren't using any advanced DB features. It doesn't have permissions, apart from standard file permissions.

I think it's important to write code to prevent this from blindly happening. It's a failure of the book format more than anything else, and can potentially happen anytime there's a potential cycle. If it were me, I'd just have the opening book code perform a real search if about to draw or if the op...

Probably I work mainly on macOs, using gcc, thus I didn’t twist the code and settings enough for speeding up with Windows/VS. In my experience, if you build in release mode for x64 (if you have a 64-bit processor) will get you a pretty optimal build. I'm lucky if tweaking the settings from there wi...

Are you saying that even moves 14 and 15 were played from the book?

Henk, I'll play next tourney, and you'll have an engine in your league at least.

I have a bunch of unit tests that include basic functionality. One of the components is perft ( https://www.chessprogramming.org/Perft ), which is quite useful for sanity checking. This is apart from performance testing (performance in games), which is really another topic. I use cutechess-cli for ...

I have a question for everyone: what is your basic approach to automated testing? What tools do you use? Do you test engine strength only, or do you test for other things as well? I want to get a workflow set up where if I make a change in the evening, I can click a button before I go to sleep and k...

I feel completely lost and need help I know that feeling. In order to solve this, you need to implement a divide routine (prints perft for each root move, so you can see which branch has the problem). Then you need to download a robust engine with a divide routine (any engine should be fine). Then,...

PSA on Intel VTune: you can get a free renewable 90-day commercial license. Technically it's for Intel System Studio, but the license includes VTune. It took me a while to figure this out when researching this, so I figured I'd share. https://software.intel.com/en-us/system-studio/choose-download O...