I actually have a working chess program at a fairly primitive stage which would be appropriate for testing UCT on chess.
My intuition (which is of course subject to great error) tells me that it won't pay off. However, I'm still quite curious about this and will probably give it a try at some point. To give it a fair chance, you couldn't just quickly whip something together, I think you would have to spend a lot of time experimenting, tweaking, debugging, etc to get a good sense of whether it would do the job. Random moves in Chess are problematic. In a Go position, you can play 10,000 random games and this by itself is a rather reasonable evaluation function. Of course the better GO programs impose some bias and control over those games and I believe this would be absolutely crucial in chess. What Chrilly calls mutual stupidity doesn't apply as strongly in Chess (in my opinion.) In other words, if you have a somewhat better position, sampling a number of random games will not reliably measure this. - Don On Tue, 2007-07-03 at 05:09 -0700, steve uurtamo wrote: > > We felt also, that even if it works, the improvement > > measured in Elos would not be very spectacular. The Elo/Effort ratio is > > low. > > I was simply too lazy (or too professional) to give it a try. > > it might be fun (even from a non-FPGA point of view) to try it just > to see where it lies versus a convential piece of code on equivalent > hardware. > > the game length is roughly the same, or smaller, and the number > of move choices is quite a bit more limited than a 19x19 go board, > (although larger than a 9x9 board in the sense that in the endgame > the board is often fairly empty rather than full) so it might be surprisingly > successful. > > s. > > > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > Boardwalk for $500? In 2007? Ha! Play Monopoly Here and Now (it's updated for > today's economy) at Yahoo! Games. > http://get.games.yahoo.com/proddesc?gamekey=monopolyherenow > _______________________________________________ > computer-go mailing list > computer-go@computer-go.org > http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/ _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
