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Subject: Re: Fuzzy programming techniques for Computer Chess?

Author: Graham Laight

Date: 08:14:05 01/31/00

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On January 31, 2000 at 05:06:38, Harald Faber wrote:

>
>Does any programmer use fuzzy programming within his program?
>If not, would it be helpful and make it easier or better to evaluate positions?
>AFAIK fuzzy is an ideal tool for combining several different, even complementary
>evaluation parameters, and chess programming has a large number of evaluation
>functions...
>
>Opinions?

I don't think that one should use fuzzy logic to EVALUATE positions, but rather
one should use it to CLASSIFY positions.

Computers are excellent at running the mathematical formulae needed to evaluate
just about anything you want at high speed.

Where they are weak is in CHOOSING the right formula to evaluate the position
with!

Understand that the evaluation part of chess can be done brilliantly already -
but the classification (choosing the correct eval functions for the positions)
is currently a fundamental weakness, and we'll be on our way to creating a
program that can consistently blast GMs off the board with affordable computer
hardware!

-g



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