Author: David Blackman
Date: 23:28:35 02/04/99
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On February 03, 1999 at 17:05:33, jonathan Baxter wrote: >I think you can only get so far with TD learning and then you have to look at >ways to get tactically stronger (which really means get deeper). TD learning is >great for learning the eval, but the eval only predicts positional things, it >can't even predict simple tactics like a potential fork. After a certain point >your program becomes fundamentally limited by its tactical strength, no matter >how strong it is positionally. >Cheers, > >Jon Are you sure TD learning can't learn tactics? I would have thought it could. TD works by comparing eval for shallow and deep searches, doesn't it? And if the deep search finds a big difference to the shallow one, the difference is because of tactics. Of course you have to have factors in your eval that can be combined in some way to predict tactics, because all you're doing is optimising the way the combining is done.
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