Author: Pat King
Date: 19:17:54 09/11/00
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On September 11, 2000 at 16:00:27, Dave Gomboc wrote: >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. For chess, no. For machine learning, yes. That's why I'm not aiming for more than "interesting" at this point > >Dave Pat
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