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Subject: Re: Symbolic: Status report 2005.06.23

Author: Steven Edwards

Date: 00:51:28 06/24/05

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On June 24, 2005 at 00:47:53, Roger D Davis wrote:

>Sounds like you're getting a lot closer. Will be fascinating to watch Symbolic
>play it's first game with the planners in place. Can't wait. :)

Thank you for your comments.

I encourage patience as the end is still a long way away.  A much closer goal is
to have Symbolic handle long nontrivial mating sequences via the simple planning
that uses the GA derived microfeature recognizer.  The next goal after that will
likely be using more advanced pattern recognition that allows better and longer
plans, although the domain will still be restricted to mating sequences.  Around
that time it will become possible to validly compare Symbolic's mate solving
performance on test suites with traditional A/B searchers.

Once the above is done, I might take some time off to do a paper on the project.
 Two reasons: first, to encourage others to consider a cognitive approach;
second, to demonstrate that Symbolic is a real, functioning program and not a
paper-only program with unsubstantiated claims.  (The cognoscenti will know the
reference.)

Afterwards, the task is to implement general tactical planning within the
existing framework.  With this, Symbolic's processing can be compared with the
output of Berliner's CAPS and Wilkins' Paradise on selected problems.
Eventually, the program will incorporate extensive knowledge about positional
goals and strategic themes.  At that point it should be capable of playing a
decent (Elo 1800) game using only the Lisp cognitive search without any
assistance from the toolkit's traditional A/B routine.



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