Author: Don Dailey
Date: 07:36:33 05/19/98
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On May 19, 1998 at 08:30:37, Stanislav Goldovski wrote: >Hello, > >Does anyone know if genetic or evolutionary approaches have >ever been tried for chess evaluation function optimization? >For example, has anyone tried to auto-generate a material scale >for chess or similar games? > >I'd be very grateful for any information/sources, > >TIA, >Stan Hi Stan, I just recently posted about this and briefly described some experiments I did and what I thought the problems were. I am generally "cautiously optimistic" about this approach. There are some problems that need to be solved, particulary with the "fitness" function to make this work well. I commented that it's a general problem in computer chess, how to measure small improvements to your chess program. John Stanback played around with this too. Both of us got very reasonable numbers for piece values. I can give you more details and observations if you are interested. Also I'm interested in hearing your ideas. - Don
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