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Subject: Re: Symbolic: 40 goals

Author: Steven Edwards

Date: 11:17:37 02/19/04

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On February 19, 2004 at 13:39:36, Matthew Hull wrote:
>On February 19, 2004 at 13:25:20, Steven Edwards wrote:

>How soon until it can play it's first legal game of chess?

Oh, it can already play a legal game, if you don't mind random moves.   Well not
exactly random; it does have access to an opening library and the tablebases.

Perhaps sometime this summer the basic planning engine should be in place, and
the picture will become much clearer at that point.

But, sometime next month I hope to have a somewhat rudimentary planner running
that specializes in the KBNK endgame.  It will be a testing platform that will
help determine the structure of the real planner.

A source snapshot:

Chess Toolkit: 40,065 lines (1,236,690 bytes)
ChessLisp Interpreter: 19,313 lines (610,901 bytes)
Symbolic Lisp files: 461 lines (16,911 bytes)

Things would go faster but because of disability issues, as I'm fortunate to be
able to get an hour a day of decent output, and that's not every day.  Sometimes
a whole week will go by without any production.  But patience and perserverence,
like a water wearing down a rock, should eventually make an effect.



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