Week	What We Plan To Do	What We Actually Did
Apr 1-7	Knock out the nitty gritty: xboard to talk to FICS, bitboards for game representation, design decisions, setting up version control.	Worked on xboard.c and bitboard.c, made a bunch of design decisions, set up git for version control, and a little more nitty gritty stuff.
Apr 8-14	Implement the basic alpha-beta pruning in a simple, working, sequential chess bot. Focus on correctness, not speed.
Apr 15-21	Parallelize our sequential bot. Implement global data structures.
Apr 22-28	Implement optimizations -- there are a vast number of them available, so try many and see what works best.
Apr 29-May 5	Continue implementing optimizations, and potentially start running on Blacklight and thinking about or improving scalabilty.
May 6-11	Hopefully be done with major coding at this point. Clean up the code (especially making sure everything is fully documented), run the bot on FICS (maybe using Blacklight too?) to obtain final ratings, and complete the final writeup. Prep for the demo.

[Keep a log of work you have done here. You may wish to list optimizations you tried, what failed, etc. Or you can just rant. Keeping a good log will make it easy to put together your final writeup.]

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01 April -- Set up the website! Hello world, etc.

04 April -- Gave Mike permissions to write to this file. :) Working on bitboards and xboards. Decided to go with a very simple bitboard representation for now, but should try switching to quad-bitboards (cf. references) for the potential SIMD speedup later on. Set up version control. Set up a makefile despite not speaking make.

06 April -- Added a README and the GPL to our codebase, since our bot is going to be open source at the end of the day. Still unable to think of a more clever name. Set up a link to this page on Jess's personal website: jessica.virdo.com/chessbot.html, for URL convenience.