Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 17:30:02 07/21/05
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On July 20, 2005 at 23:21:52, Pallav Nawani wrote: >On July 20, 2005 at 17:03:40, Scott Gasch wrote: > >>Some guy used a spam filter + some stripped PGN + a legal move generator to make >>a "chess engine". It's an interesting read. >> >> http://dbacl.sourceforge.net/spam_chess-4.html >> >>Scott > >This is the third time the news have posted here in the last 24 hrs :). Anyway, >I went through the article rather fast ( I was not interested in details of how >he parsed the Pgn, etc), but it occured to me that his bayesian filter which >played chess, all it did was to pick a move out of a big opening database... >Further, it did not even generate moves itself, but used San kit to do it. > >IMHO it did not really 'learn' to play chess. That's on the one hand. On the other hand, it is a clever way to create a smart opening book.
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