Why don't you guys use Chess Engine Cloud http://www.engine-cloud.com/
I've never tried it myself. Has anyone here tried it and what do you think?

What are some of the missing chess software features that you guys wished existed and would be willing to pay for. I'm looking for a small interesting project to work on in chess.

I've noticed that Houdini achieves 100% cpu utilization across all my cores. And other engines such as Rybka and Stockfish don't. What is holding back Rybka and Stockfish from achieving 100% cpu utilization?

Thomas Lincke's PhD thesis Exploring the Computational Limits of Large Exhaustive Search Problems has a section on it (section 4.3).
That thesis is an amazing find though I'm saddened to see that the thesis was written in 2002 which is before the paper by Kishimoto and Muller (2004) http://webdocs ...

Thomas Lincke's PhD thesis Exploring the Computational Limits of Large Exhaustive Search Problems has a section on it (section 4.3).

That thesis is an amazing find though I'm saddened to see that the thesis was written in 2002 which is before the paper by Kishimoto and Muller (2004) http ...

The previous pseudocode is for implementing extending the graph by a move. And on a side note on further reflection I realize it doesn't handle for example an drawn endgame consisting of rook king pawn vs rook king. It would exhaust all the positions but if the approximate evaluation passed in was ...

I am trying to understand the graph history interaction problem described in this paper by Kishimoto and Mueller.
http://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~mmueller/ps/kishimoto-mueller-infsci-ghi.pdf

I see that the problem has already been discussed but I couldn't follow their discussion.
http://open ...

Do chess servers typically keep games in progress as something in a SQL database or do they store games all in memory?

How do chess servers keep track of time for all the games being played. There could potentially be many games where the clock runs down to 0 for one side and the server needs to check for that. A direct approach such as trying to check for that condition for all the games as fast as possible seems ...

How do chess servers keep track of time for all the games being played. There could potentially be many games where the clock runs down to 0 for one side and the server needs to check for that. A direct approach such as trying to check for that condition for all the games as fast as possible seems ...