Author: Pat King
Date: 13:05:15 11/01/99
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On November 01, 1999 at 08:49:50, Jari Huikari wrote: >I remember the manual of my old Colossus Chess X told that the program >learns from the games it plays. > >I'd like to hear more about this. When was the idea about learning found? >Which programs use learning? And what kind of learning? Is it only counting >which openings lead to which results? Has anyone tried something else too? >(With or without success.) > I have tried using genetic algorithms (GA) to tune the weights of my evaluation function, but I set that aside because the underlying program was so slow. I hope to soon give the GA stuff another shot. I have heard of others using the same technique and finding that GA could, for example, find approximately the correct weights of the various pieces. However, the process converged so slowly that I think those more interested in chess have returned to hand tuning. Pat
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