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Subject: Re: Symbolic: Status report 2004.06.24

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 13:35:33 06/29/04

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On June 28, 2004 at 18:11:39, Steven Edwards wrote:

How many semi-legal moves a second can you generate a second in the position
after 1.e4,e5 2.d4,d5 with your code by now?

Please quote hardware also.

Thanks,
Vincent

>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.
>
>--------
>
>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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