(Where)Can Stockfish Improve?

[vittyvirus]

I've lately started to take interests in Stockfish code. My Questions are:

1. Can Stockfish improve?

2. How much can Stockfish improve (I've heard sky is the limit)?

3. WHERE can it improve? (Opening, Midgame, or Endgame, or evaluation, or search, or move generation, or code optimization?)

[velmarin]

Would be nice if you would improve the avatar,

very annoying,
is not worthy of a nice guy like you.

Please.

[vittyvirus]

Would be nice if you would improve the avatar,

very annoying,
is not worthy of a nice guy like you.

Please.

Of course. I'm sorry for my avatar
I don't know why they're using old phpBB, and why not automatically resizing the images.

[velmarin]

There is much discussion about the design of the forum,
but we have a sponsor to cover the costs, ect.

Still, if you resize the avatar not read the letters. : (

A personal thing, you can not handle Facebook friends?

Regarding Stockfish, sure there is still much to improve,
There is much to improve in all engines,
but it is difficult to find the balance.

[vittyvirus]

There is much discussion about the design of the forum,
but we have a sponsor to cover the costs, ect.

Still, if you resize the avatar not read the letters. : (

A personal thing, you can not handle Facebook friends?

Regarding Stockfish, sure there is still much to improve,
There is much to improve in all engines,
but it is difficult to find the balance.

What do you mean by 'A personal thing, you can not handle Facebook friends?'. I can't get your message.

[Vinvin]

I've lately started to take interests in Stockfish code. My Questions are:

1. Can Stockfish improve?

2. How much can Stockfish improve (I've heard sky is the limit)?

3. WHERE can it improve? (Opening, Midgame, or Endgame, or evaluation, or search, or move generation, or code optimization?)

As I pointed here : http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopi ... 363#580363 , SF have weaknesses in king safety. "Weak" humans can get advantage from that. It's the difficult to detect the king safety weakness from computer games because it involved sacrifice and it's even harder top detect from self test because the opponent have to use a very different search to play well a king attack.

[velmarin]

You do not have
"friend request".

[rreagan]

I've lately started to take interests in Stockfish code. My Questions are:

1. Can Stockfish improve?

2. How much can Stockfish improve (I've heard sky is the limit)?

3. WHERE can it improve? (Opening, Midgame, or Endgame, or evaluation, or search, or move generation, or code optimization?)

I think the more interesting question is, will anyone be able to keep up with Stockfish? Being open-source, you would think SF could never stay on top since others could borrow ideas, but no one else has an army of developers working for free.

[Uri Blass]

I've lately started to take interests in Stockfish code. My Questions are:

1. Can Stockfish improve?

2. How much can Stockfish improve (I've heard sky is the limit)?

3. WHERE can it improve? (Opening, Midgame, or Endgame, or evaluation, or search, or move generation, or code optimization?)

I think the more interesting question is, will anyone be able to keep up with Stockfish? Being open-source, you would think SF could never stay on top since others could borrow ideas, but no one else has an army of developers working for free.

I think that the answer is yes because I see lack of interest in developing stockfish that cause the framwork to be often empty.


There is a way to prevent it by having many tests with low priority or having tests with longer time control but it seems that it is more important for the leaders to save testing time and note that there is at least a small chance that testing at longer time control or random change of some weight may help to find an improvement.

[vittyvirus]

You do not have
"friend request".

I guess I do: facebook.com/syed.fahad.3133