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Subject: Re: Symbolic: Status report 2004.06.24

Author: Steven Edwards

Date: 15:11:39 06/28/04

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On June 25, 2004 at 15:18:48, Roger D Davis wrote:

>1. Will there be a compiled version that users can download and play on FICS or
>ICC?

Highly unlikely.  Certainly there will never be a Windows version.

>2. Would seem that it might be easier to develop personalities for Symbolic than
>for other chess programs. I say this because Symbolic will, presumably, operate
>using higher order strategic constructs, and by weighting these constructs,
>different styles could be produced. One style might try to minimize pawn
>weaknesses, for example, whereas another might try to maximize the amount of
>board space controlled. Perhaps it would even be possible to produce a Tal-like
>style that would play speculatively. Any thoughts on this?

An interesting idea.  I'd have to wait until the project gets to the point of
real machine learning before making any specific claims on this; the details of
the implementation of the program's personality will be rather influencial in
this regard.

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At the moment I'm still wrestling with the opportunity search; I'm trying to
give it the ability to perform multiple distributed ponderings.  This is going
to take some time.



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