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Subject: Re: CAP

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 23:13:25 11/07/02

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On November 08, 2002 at 01:38:30, martin fierz wrote:

>On November 07, 2002 at 20:43:32, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
>>On November 07, 2002 at 19:48:46, Russell Reagan wrote:
>>
>>>So you're kind of building a giant opening book?
>>
>>Yes and no.  It's just a pile of data.  It could be used as an opening book, but
>>it would be unlikely that such an approach would be successful.
>
>i would be surprised if such an approach were not successful! my checkers
>opening book generator analyses opening positions and somehow decides which
>position to analyse next, and this approach works extremly well for checkers. of
>course, chess is much more complicated, but if you get 1000s of computers
>working for you, and a powerful engine to search with, then this approach will
>work for chess too.

See what computer programs think about the Evans Gambit.  The evaluation is
often off by about 2 pawns.

On the other hand, if you minimax the same data, it will turn out the bugs.



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