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Subject: Re: Genetic Algorithms applied to King-Pawn endgames

Author: Pat King

Date: 11:59:02 09/11/00

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On September 10, 2000 at 19:32:32, Richard A. Fowell (fowell@netcom.com) wrote:

>I just ran across this paper on the subject topic.
>Somewhat academic, since a tiny tablebase handles
>this ending well, but I thought it might be interesting
>for those wondering about applications of GA to chess.
>
>http://www.cs.utah.edu/~wyman/classes/ML_proj/paper.html
>
>Richard A. Fowell

It's good to know of some success out there. I tried, several years ago, to
weight my evaluation via GA. The program was just too painfully slow. I have not
given up, however, and hope to include GA techniques in Zotron some day, so that
no two players face quite the same opponent. I think it will lead to interesting
opponents, but not neccessarily better ones. So far, the learning rate seems to
favor hand tweaking (even such a shaky hand as mine).

Pat King



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