Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 13:00:27 09/11/00
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On September 11, 2000 at 14:59:02, Pat King wrote: >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 From reading the article, I'd hesitate before calling the technique a success. Dave
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