Author: Frank Schneider
Date: 11:26:27 05/14/98
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On May 14, 1998 at 13:53:56, Alvaro Polo wrote: >Here is an idea, I don't know if it has been proposed before (probably >yes) or if it can be useful. > >The idea is to construct a chess meta-program, using a program to >combine the output of the best chess programs. ... >This whole approach is not very different from Althoffer's three-hirn >play, it is just an authomated version of it. Perhaps a new program >could follow the individual PV to decide which one is better, or a >majority votation could be made among the results proposed, etc. The idea is similar to the design-patterns 'blackboard' (collect parts of a solution of a problem on a blackboard and try to combine them or pick a good/the best solution) and 'master-slave' (a master collects results of slaves) from 'Pattern-oriented Software-architecture' by Buschmann, Meunier, Rohnert, Sommerlad and Stal. I don't know if the patterns have been applied to chess, but I think there are better ways to parallelize search. It would be very interesting to use these patterns to write an evaluation-function. Frank
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