Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 04:59:10 12/21/99
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On December 20, 1999 at 15:00:50, Tijs van Dam wrote: >Hello, > >For my simple chess program GKJunior I now stand for the tremendous task of >writing a decent evaluation function. I took a look at the 3000 lines of >crafty's eval and decided that i just don't know that much of chess itself to >ever do this. > >Therefore, I decided i would like to have the program do some stuff by itself. >Sounds easy, but isn't. I'm looking in the direction of neural programming... I >want the program to calculate a value for positional advantage, knowing nothing >at all of passed pawns, trapped bishops, connected rooks or whatsoever. > >Has anybody here some experience on this topic and could you point me in some >direction (books, internet resources)? I remember Dan Thies from Denmark (?) who spent years on building an evaluation with help of a neural network. >Greetings, >Tijs van Dam
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