Author: Vladimir Medvedev
Date: 06:22:41 06/24/02
Many chess programs, both commertial and amateur, are announced as "learning" ones. Of course, their learning ability is something different than human's one. AFAIK, there are two main cases of learning: 1. Opening learning, when program gets some opening statistics and then avoid unfortunate opening lines (as Fritz does). 2. Evaluation function learning - but not in it's main structure, only by tuning some parameters and weights. Using some sophisticated techniques like temporal difference etc. Now the questions: Does anybody know, are there any other methods of learning? Does learning really improve playing strength? Are learning abilities really useful and fruitful feature for chess program, or mostly marketing bells and whistles?
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