"Marcel van Kervinck" wrote in message
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martin nylin wrote:
Please let me know if you guys have some ideas of what needs to be done
within computer chess research. I have a feeling that lots of things
have
already been done (for instance with crafty), but I hope there are still
some work to do to make the best program play even stronger.


Address some other game than chess. Finding something
new in chess computing will be hard and demotivating.
The state of the art is so much advanced that you will
either
- spend too much time learning what other's have done,
leaving too little time to focus on something new
- or create something new and valuable, but find it hard to
demonstrate because other programs are so much stronger

I have to second this. However, you can also consider
a chess variant. Less work has been done there, and you
can get a competitive program easier. And it's still
chess (somewhat) :-)

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GCP