Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 17:12:49 12/07/03
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On December 07, 2003 at 19:56:10, Ralph Stoesser wrote: >On December 07, 2003 at 10:22:47, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On December 07, 2003 at 03:21:17, Luis Smith wrote: >> >>>>Yes, this is a continual process... >>>> >>>>But 19.6 is no different than 19.5 except for NUMA support... >>> >>>How do you improve upon a program which has so many things? Obviously you can >>>improve on strength, but Crafty already has most or all of the well known >>>techniques in them. >>> >>>So the question is I guess, what is on your to-do list? What can we expect from >>>Crafty in the future? >> >> >> >>After I finish the Linux-NUMA stuff, it's back to the two usual things >>that need work: >> >>1. evaluation. There are still things that are either missing, not implemented >>very cleanly, or need tuning. > >I really think it must be a pain for a human being to write a chess evaluator >AND to adjust the many weights manually. Have you ever tried an automated way of >parameter (weight) tuning? Have you ever tried playing around with ANN's for >crafty's evaluation weights? > >Best, >Ralph > In a word, no. I simply have never had enough time. It would be a good project, but it would take some time to do it. >> >>2. search. There are still things that are untried here as well, from forward >>pruning to better extension tuning or new extensions, not to mention possible >>changes to the q-search which is now very simple-minded.
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