Author: Matthew Hull
Date: 07:21:52 03/29/04
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On March 28, 2004 at 22:44:27, Artem Pyatakov wrote: > >>I think you and Steven both enjoy thumbing your noses at the "conventional, >>hat-trick, alpha-beta seachers". I am not quite sure why, but whatever floats >>your boat . . . >> >>anthony > >Well, I've explained my objections to it. Don't get me wrong, I am one of those >people - I have written a program that uses all of the tricks I criticize. But >my objection to it is that a lot of these tricks are not beneficial for research >in related fields - even close ones like playing other games, and thus it would >be nice to change philosophies. It would also be much more elegant to be able to >have computers learn the tricks themselves, don't you think? Perhaps Steven Edward's approach (Symbolic) has some tools that give it a potential for self-learning some day by analyzing successful GM games, "discovering" patterns and plans that seem to work, and incorporating them into it's own library of knowledge. > >Artem
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