Author: Gunnar Andersson
Date: 02:23:35 09/28/99
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On September 27, 1999 at 13:59:58, Robert Hyatt wrote: >Picking good book moves is an issue. The commercial guys seem to bank on >having a human tune their book. This is impractical, for lots of reasons. >Letting the program tune its own book is also very difficult. There really >isn't a good solution for this problem yet, either human solution or computer >solution... Isn't this because the evaluation functions haven't reached the level where the values they return have a good global interpretation? I.e. comparable between different game stages and different types of games. I've been involved in computer Othello for a while now. It's considerably easier to tune a good evaluation function automatically and all the top programs (which are much stronger than the human world champion) tune their book automatically. In the future, evaluation functions in chess programs might reach this level too and then having humans tune the book won't be necessary (or a good idea at all). / Gunnar
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