Author: Sune Fischer
Date: 02:16:55 08/01/02
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On July 31, 2002 at 18:10:08, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >And he'll never do a competative chessprogram again either, he forgot to >add that too. It's the classic problem. Person A has spent 15 years on his chessprogram, he thinks he knows it all. In from the right comes a guy who knows nothing about chess programming but is very good a tuning weights in general. He applies his knowledge to a simple chess program and is very successful in increasing it's strength. Person A now concludes; "his method isn't working, his program is still weaker than mine":) >I remember Knightcap very well. TD learning had the habit to slowly >make it more aggressive until it was giving away a piece for 1 pawn and >a check. > >Then of course the 'brain was cleared' and experiment restarted. >So in short the longer the program used the TD learning the worse it >would play, from my viewpoint. > >Definitely from a chessplayers viewpoint it did. Of course we must not >forget that in the time it played online, that nearly no program was >very aggressive. So doing a few patzer moves was a good way to get from >perhaps scoring 11% to 12% or so. So in other words, if you teach it the wrong things it doesn't work? Why am I not surprised. -S.
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