12 Apr 03
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Just started reading a book on neural networks (a basic book I might add ;-)).
It started me thinking about computer Chess programs.
I seem to remember that there was some research into Chess programs based on neural nets but if I recall correctly, they were superseded by number crunchers.
Does anyone know if there is still active research on Neural net based Chess programs?
13 Apr 03
Originally posted by LazarausHi there
Just started reading a book on neural networks (a basic book I might add ;-)).
It started me thinking about computer Chess programs.
I seem to remember that there was some research into Chess programs based on neural nets but if I recall correctly, they were superseded by number crunchers.
Does anyone know if there is still active research on Neural net based Chess programs?
A generally great resource about Computer Chess programming is:-
http://www.xs4all.nl/~verhelst/chess/programming.html
They do have a link to Neural network announcements, but I could not see anything about chess on initial investigation.
However, Google seems to have brought up an interesting link related to a distrubuted chess project utilising neural networks:-
http://neural-chess.netfirms.com/
But the last update is 02/01/2003
Personally I think the crunching method does the job much better (from the point of view of strong winning chess) , and as Teichmann once said "Chess is 99% Tactics". Crunching is good at finding tactics. Even endgames where there is supposedly less crunching, can be effectively handled by Endgame databases.
Best wishes
Tryfon