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Subject: Re: AI considerations

Author: Jay Scott

Date: 14:33:58 06/28/04

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On June 28, 2004 at 17:25:14, Anthony Cozzie wrote:

>Good chess is good chess. The hope is that it generates something reasonable.
>In general it has gotten similar values to the Crafty defaults.

That's certainly an excellent start.

>I don't think
>autotuning will ever be as good as manual tuning, but it gives you a reasonable
>starting place

I don't think current methods are going to work as well as manual tuning, which
is based on a combination of empirical thinking and analytic thinking, because
current methods are purely empirical. But algorithms are getting smarter; math
works on them. I believe that someday automated tuning will be so much better
than manual tuning that we'll wonder how we ever got by.

>it also tells you whether a new parameter is good or
>complete trash.

Which is valuable in itself. Also it's a way to find bugs: "How did that passed
pawn term get a negative value?"

  Jay



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