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Subject: Re: ACM Members - Citation -- need article

Author: Stuart Cracraft

Date: 06:45:42 11/01/04

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On November 01, 2004 at 04:48:24, GuyHaworth wrote:

>
>Why not ask GT directr?
>
>http://www.research.ibm.com/massive/tdl.html#about_the_author

Well -- the reason is that I have found it very rare that an author
will give out something free that he is essentially charging for.

>
>My understanding is that ANNs work better for backgammon than for games which do
>not have the 'smoothing' effect (on the position evaluation function) caused by
>randomness.
>

There are ways around this.

>
>Meel Velliste and I ran an ANN-experiment on KPK some years back, somewhat
>helped by GT's papers.
>
>g

More than that.

GT is absolutely one of the most creative forces to hit strategic games.
He has showed, beyond TD-Gammon what he did for Deep Blue. The move that
Gary Kasparov called "plays like God" in regards to Deep Blue I believe
would not have been made about Tesauro's evaluation tuning effort for DB.



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