Author: Alex Holland
Date: 23:51:59 11/09/03
I'm doing a Third Year Computer Science degree project on Behaviour Cloning for Chess - using Inductive Logic Programming (Aleph in particular) to copy the chess playing behaviour of an existing person or machine. One of the sources I'm considering cloning is GNU Chess, as I can easily have a look at it and see how it works, and it's fairly well documented. To this end, I'd like to set it up to play against itself for a few days, keeping all the game moves saved in a big text file. I can then use this file as positive examples for the ILP algorithms. However, I can't find any way to do this. I know I can save games into PGN format, but I can't find any way to make it play against itself, short of typing "go" over and over again Ideally what I want is for GNU chess to play against itself until endgame, then save a PGN, then repeat. Is there any facility for this, or am I going to have to exert my shaky C++ skills on the sourcecode? For reference, I'm running GNU Chess 5.06 on Gentoo GNU/Linux, and I'll be starting by playing KRK games. Secondly, does anyone know of any strictly deterministic chess programs, i.e. ones that make the same moves every time in a given situation? I realise such a program would be fairly useless to play against, but it would be pedagogically interesting to have a noise-free source to attempt to clone. Lastly, anyone generally got any documents they could point me at that they think might be relevant? I've found Jay Scott's machine learning page, which is a big help. Thanks in advance. Alex
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