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Subject: Re: neural computing in eval function

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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