Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 20:48:30 02/07/02
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On February 07, 2002 at 18:35:26, Heiner Marxen wrote: >On February 07, 2002 at 16:46:21, Otello Gnaramori wrote: >>On February 06, 2002 at 17:38:51, Côme wrote: >>>Hi ! >>>Go here for an interesting project >>>http://wind.prohosting.com/chessweb/HTML/project.html >> >>It's very interesting but since it's based on pattern recognition and >>evolutionary algorithms it will take a time -> infinite to have some interesting >>result , comparable to the strength of today's classic engines. >> >>w.b.r. >>Otello > >While you may be quite right, the same is true for most amateur programmers. >Yet they start off and roll their own program. Why? >Because there is something to learn for them. Right? > >Dito for evolutionary methods applied to chess. There is still a lot to learn. >Also, evolutionary algorithms tend to be very sensitive to the details of >their setup, and so the failure of one or two experiments need not tell a >lot about the chances of the next experiment. > >For me at least it looks like a much too unattended topic. >I'd love to see some results, whether they are positive or negative. I agree. My gut feeling: It will be a dismal failure. However, I hope very strongly that I am wrong. And if it is a dismal failure, it is still not really a failure. Because we will know what *doesn't* work. That's one less thing that we'll have to try. Further, nobody will ever make an advancement in a new direction unless someone bothers to try it.
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