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

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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