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Subject: Re: book learning

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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