Author: Ernst A. Heinz
Date: 11:14:20 02/17/01
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Hi Bob, >On February 16, 2001 at 15:16:57, Ernst A. Heinz wrote: > >>Hi Martin, >> >>>i would like to implement a book learning feature for my checkers program. >>>unfortunately, i have no idea how :-) >>>so: is there a 'most relevant webpage' which describes how to do this or could >>>someone give a short description on how to do it? >> >>Michael Buro implemented book learning for his champion >>Othello program "Logistello" and described the schemes >>in "Toward Opening Book Learning", ICCA Journal 22(2), >>Sept. 1999. A preprint of the article is available online >>at http://www.neci.nj.nec.com/homepages/mic/ps/book.ps.gz. >> >>=Ernst= > >That isn't so hot for chess. The way the learning works is based on a game >tree that is pretty narrow, which chess is not while othello is. Frey also >did book learning with othello (I think it was in the old chess skill book). >But again, I don't think that approach is very applicable to chess either. I agree with you regarding the possible applicability of Michael Buro's approach for chess -- but Martin Fierz is working on *checkers* (not on chess) which features much narrower search trees than chess in general. Hence, I still think the approach is worthwhile to look at for Martin's particular purpose. =Ernst=
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