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Subject: Re: machine learning in chess

Author: Jay Scott

Date: 13:27:55 04/28/05

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On April 27, 2005 at 18:37:50, Michael Yee wrote:

>On April 27, 2005 at 16:10:13, Jay Scott wrote:
>>Unlikely to be a big win, because existing heuristics are highly successful.
>
>I guess it'd still be interesting (for me personally) to see if the automatic
>method's performance could match the existing heuristics. In any case, move
>ordering could be handled alongside the extension/reduction task.

Most of the benefit comes from extremely simple rules like "play the best move
from the transposition table" and "play winning captures". There's just not much
room to play around in.

  Jay



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