Ping...

I've not posted for over a year.  Although I have not had much time to work in Vicki, the engine is definitely not dead.

I will start with a rewrite in the foreseeable future.  I am not yet sure which direction I'd like to take with Vicki - but I am toying with the following:

1. Possibly rewriting the engine in Java.  The speed difference between Java and C is negligible, when the number of objects used are limited.  Java also has better testing frameworks (well, from what I could find) and is platform independent.  I can also throw in my own GUI, if I like.
2. General improvement on absolutely everything from move generation write through to opening/ending databases.
3. Multi-threaded searching for multi-core systems.  I have access to some serious hardware at work (i.e. 64Gb RAM with 8 quad core processors).  Would be interesting to use of of those for a tournament!
4. I would like to finally get learning right!
5. Full-time up server playing on servers.

Watch this space!