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Subject: Re: neural computing in eval function

Author: David Blackman

Date: 00:51:35 12/21/99

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On December 20, 1999 at 15:29:06, James Swafford wrote:

>Hi Tijs,
>
>I think we're in the same boat.  I am setting up a genetic
>algorithm experiment, hopefully to begin late next summer.
>
>I've resigned myself to the fact that there won't be any
>quick results.  In fact, I'm expecting this to take at least
>a couple years to derive anything meaningful.
>
>TDChess (KnightCap) used neural networks.  You can find
>a link to KnightCap on my site...
>
>http://members.xoom.com/jswaff/chessprg
>
>Good luck.. please keep up posted!
>
>--
>James

TDChess did learn it's eval but i'm pretty sure it wasn't a neural net. I think
it's eval was a linear combination of features, the same sort of thing that most
programs use. The learning just optimised the constants in front of the
features. This was done using TD-Lambda.



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