Author: Anthony Cozzie
Date: 12:50:19 07/01/03
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On July 01, 2003 at 14:21:12, Tom Kerrigan wrote: >On July 01, 2003 at 13:32:19, Ralph Stoesser wrote: > >>Hello *, >> >>Why no top engine uses neural networks for positional evaluation in non-tactical >>situations? Are there interesting publications about neural networks and chess >>programming? >> >>Ralph > >Neural networks are for analyzing things that are >"fuzzy"--voice/image/handwriting recognition, etc. Chess is a very exacting >game. (It makes a big difference if your rook is on d1 vs. e1.) I doubt neural >networks will ever be useful for chess. > >-Tom The human brain is also rather "fuzzy" and it seems to play chess rather well, at least in some individuals :) Neural nets aren't used for chess because they simply aren't as good as a human-developed evaluation function. Humans have spent a lot of time trying to generate rules (to help other humans) that work for chess, and it isn't too hard to teach those rules to computers. A neural net would abandon all that, and start over from scratch, so to speak. Anthony
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