Author: Pauli Misikangas
Date: 10:52:47 09/05/00
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On September 05, 2000 at 07:36:11, Alain Lyrette wrote: >After all those years working to improve your programs,refining search >etc...would you say that it help you become a better chess player or that we're >talking about 2 completely different issues here?if it helped you by how much? I don't know about chess programming, but doing shogi (japanese chess programming has improved my shogi playing skills significantly. In fact, me and my program have learned together, since the reason to start making a shogi program was that I didn't have anybody else to play with... :-) So, in the beginning, neither of us could play shogi - we both started from scratch. Now my program is the 8th best shogi program in the world (according to the last championship) and I am one of the strongest shogi players in Finland (easy to say because we have only a few shogi players here ;-). I guess that the programming itself is not very helpful, but analyzing the games played by the program is. I think this is somewhat different in shogi, because we don't have such a huge set of test positions as you chess programmers use to test your programs. So, I cannot just look at the score got from some pre-defined tests (because I don't have any). Instead, I have to analyze games played by my program and try to find out what was the reason why it made such moves. I must have spent hundreds of hours just watching how my program plays against other programs. As a side effect, I have learned a lot of useful attacking and defending techniques. And perhaps more important, I have learned to avoid making those stupid mistakes shogi programs do! :-) Pauli Misikangas
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