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I learned to play Go a few months ago and I've kind of wondered about the same question. It seems the situation of computer Go is similar to the one of computer chess in the 90's. You say that there is not many money to be made on this field, but I'm not that sure about it (for example, the android ...

It's important to note that Sotckfish with no opening book at all.

I just stumbled on this: https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/7/24/584 Just a sample: "Ok, so I'm looking at the code generation and your compiler is pure and utter *shit*. Adding Jakub to the cc, because gcc-4.9.0 seems to be terminally broken. Lookie here, your compiler does some absolutely insane things wi...

Didn't mean to sound patronizing; I haven't read about bitboards for a long time and just forgot this is "standard notation".
Yes, FWIW, the list was authored by me.

Qtcreator as IDE. GIT for version control. "printf" and "puts" for debugging. Also some bitboard printing. The linux terminal, specially "grep" and "|" are my friends. gcc for compiling (once in a while I also use clang, just to have a "second opinion". In this sense, once in a while I make a no-opt...

Maybe this can be of help: https://gist.github.com/emdio/7689543 Note this was written for my own personal interest, meaning that if you miss some stuff (v. g. links to the source code) it's just because I have it on my own computer, and of course, that the info is completely subjective. Best Emdio ...

To bitboard. Bitboards aren't only very efficient for the moves generator, but also are really efficient in the evaluation because you have a lot of important information already stored on them, and a fast way (bitwise operators) to combine them to get extra info (passed pawns, doubled pawns, etc). ...

By "unbalanced positions" I mean a position in which one of the sides is one pawn or more below, and has some kind of compensation (attack, development, etc). Lets say we have some engines ranked under a match with a standard opening book. We run a match with the same engines using an unbalanced ope...

I praise your self confidence and motivation (no irony or sarcasm here). Write down the many useful suggestions made on this post, and take into account that you are facing a really huge enterprise.

Just out of curiosity; will it be an open source project?

Not sure if exactly what you are asking about, but this link can be interesting:
http://top-5000.nl/eval.htm