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Subject: Re: It's Prophet

Author: James Swafford

Date: 20:24:24 02/04/05

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On February 04, 2005 at 22:14:44, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On February 04, 2005 at 22:08:32, James Swafford wrote:
>
>>On February 04, 2005 at 20:26:33, Peter Skinner wrote:
>>
>>>Hello everyone,
>>>
>>>We have a new entrant:
>>>
>>>Phophet
>>>
>>
>>Prophet
>
>I am curious about how much automated learning made it into the current version.
>Do you have an information page about it?

None.  I haven't done any tdleaf 'runs' for a while.  It's
been over a year; maybe two.

The "learned" version was never able to beat the same
version of the program with hand tuned weights.  It did
manage to come up with reasonable piece values, but some of the
piece-square tables were pretty funky looking.

I think the problem came down to:
1. dramatic changes in score due to tactical defeats
   (I should probably ignore large temporal differences)
2. too few eval parameters (it was pretty obvious that
   the pawn piece square tables were compensating
   for lack of king safety)

Or, more simply- a crappy search with a simple eval.
(Or was it a simple search with a crappy eval?)

In either case, the situation has improved somewhat, but I
haven't repeated the experiment.  I might as well, as
I have lots of CPU time but little programming time. :)

Sorry, no web page.  I'll try to soon, but my free time
is pretty limited these days.

--
James




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