Author: GuyHaworth
Date: 09:15:11 12/03/02
Go up one level in this thread
I have described 'Reference Endgame Play', defining a spectrum of Reference (Fallible) Endgame Players. This was presented at the 7th Computer Olympiad Workshop, Maastricht, 2002. A revised and generalised presentation of the concept is targetted to be in the ICGA Journal, December 2002. The basic idea is that an REP is less likely to play a move that is worse in a value/depth sense. Some REPs are less likely to play that move than other REPs. The idea generalises to non-endgame play. One might say that the opponent is less likely to play a move that rates worse according to your evaluation function - but as your evaluation functions do not agree, the chances are indeed non-zero. Different 'opponents' will be less likely than others to play a 'sub-optimal' move. With Bayesian inference, you can assign probabilities to the different 'opponents' ... and thereby come to an expected value for a position rather than just its absolute minimax value. This may cause you to choose other than the minimax-optimal move on occasion. g
This page took 0 seconds to execute
Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700
Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.