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Subject: Train your spam filter to play chess

Author: John Sidles

Date: 07:23:58 07/20/05


CCC members will enjoy Laird A. Breyer's completely serious, moderately
successful,
and highly entertaining project to train an email spam filter to play chess:

<BLOCKQUOTE>
This experiment will test a real spam filter, not a specially designed chess
program.
It won't aim to beat Deep Thought (I wouldn't know where to start, and I have a
feeling
this could be difficult anyway ;-), but it will aim to show signs of
"intelligence", or we
won't claim success. Finally, since dry tables and graphs are no fun, a
theoretical proof
of concept is not enough: the spam filter must really play chess in a way that
everyone
can see, and try out at home.
</BLOCKQUOTE>

http://dbacl.sourceforge.net/spam_chess-1.html

Breyer's writeup is complete enough that you can try it yourself, from the
command
line, with only moderate unix skills.



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