Author: Landon Rabern
Date: 16:00:55 06/04/01
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On June 04, 2001 at 18:48:40, Marc van Hal wrote: >On June 04, 2001 at 17:44:56, Christophe Theron wrote: > >>On June 04, 2001 at 16:03:36, John Hatcher wrote: >> >>>Here is a news report today from Reuters which may be of interest: >>> >>>********************************************************** >>> >>>(Reuters) >>> >>>Scottish University Sets Up First Chess Doctorate >>> >>>EDINBURGH, Scotland (Reuters) - A Scottish university is setting up the world's >>>first chess doctorate which its creator hopes will lead to the development of >>>supercomputers capable of beating even the greatest of grandmasters. >>> >>>``My computers will be as clever as 1,000 Einsteins,'' course director Peter >>>Vas, professor of artificial intelligence at Scotland's Aberdeen University, >>>told Reuters Monday. >>> >>>A keen chess player himself, Vas is looking for around 40 graduates for the >>>three-year PhD course, which also aims to push back the boundaries of artificial >>>intelligence, creating computers that can think and learn by themselves. >>> >>>He hopes former Russian world chess champion Garry Kasparov will become a >>>lecturer. >>> >>>Only the brainiest need bother applying -- prospective candidates must be highly >>>proficient at math and computing and be in the top flight of their national >>>chess rankings. >>> >>>``There will be a grandmaster entrance exam,'' Vas said, although he denied >>>reports that they had to beat the grandmaster in a game to get in. >>> >>>``Obviously we can't ask for them to beat a grandmaster because if it was >>>Kasparov playing 100 people simultaneously, he would still beat them all,'' Vas >>>said. ``Just showing the potential will be enough.'' >>> >>>Vas said the new supercomputers would have the combined intelligence of the >>>world's finest human minds. >>> >>>However, they would not live up to the apocalyptic fantasies of some Hollywood >>>film directors and get so smart they tried to destroy humanity. >>> >>>``An intelligent thing will always stop short of destroying itself,'' Vas said. >>>``There's no chance of that happening.'' >>> >>>Even Kasparov, who has met tough electronic challengers in IBM's 'Deep Blue' and >>>its bigger, better cousin 'Deeper Blue', stands to gain. >>> >>>``Playing something better than him will help him improve his game,'' Vas said. >>>******************* >>>END >> >> >> >>The tone and the content sound like an April 1st joke. >> >> >>"Only the brainiest need bother applying -- prospective candidates must be >>highly proficient at math and computing and be in the top flight of their >>national chess rankings." >> >> >>What a major mistake. Strong chess players are not the people of choice to >>create a strong chess computer. >> >> >> >> Christophe > > >Well then this is where your wrong human chess players are the only beings who >are capabale to see the positional moves better then the programs of today will >And i do not think that keeping the same course of programing ever will be able >to see the positional moves (a combining with neural networks shall be an >extremely improvement for positional moves and planning >Today many people still think that every opening is just playable I already >showed many times that this is not the case >Even many openingsbooks from programs contain these mistakes >Then again I have seen programs of today ruin winning positions >and even where glad to draw that winning position. > > >For the matter tactical moves are moves wich capture a piece,threaten to capture >a piece giving check ,threaten to give check mate,threaten to give mate. >giving pat threaten to give pat > >positional moves are moves wich are the moves when there is nothing to do and >enable a tactical move (Tarrasch). I have done some testing will a neural network evaluation in my program for my independent study. The biggest problem I ran into was the slowness of calculating all the sigmoids(I actually used tanh(NET)). It drastically cuts down the nps and gets spanked by my handcrafted eval. I got moderate results playing with set ply depths no set time controls, but that isn't saying much. Regards, Landon W. Rabern
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