I'm a novice and know nothing about programming but I love chess and visit the site once in a while. I have a question---I was reading an article in Discover magazine this week about computers that recognize patterns. Is it possible to program a computer that recognizes chess patterns? If the master recognizes 50,000 patterns why not build a machine that recognizes a billion patterns---or a trillion???
Jim
pattern recognition
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Re: pattern recognition
Sure you can. You just have to do it. The hard part is trying to come up with the patterns, and how much they might be worth.
Some think that Vas, when he wrote Rybka, took a small part of Bobby Fischer's brain, ground it up and somehow encoded it in his program to get these patterns. Afterall, Ryb is "fish" in Russian, and the "ka" ending means "little". So Rybka, "little fish" might really be a little Bobby FIscher!
Mark
Some think that Vas, when he wrote Rybka, took a small part of Bobby Fischer's brain, ground it up and somehow encoded it in his program to get these patterns. Afterall, Ryb is "fish" in Russian, and the "ka" ending means "little". So Rybka, "little fish" might really be a little Bobby FIscher!
Mark
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Re: pattern recognition
This makes a lot of sense. It explains why Vas keeps it a secret how Rybka got her name.
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Re: pattern recognition
mjlef wrote:Sure you can. You just have to do it. The hard part is trying to come up with the patterns, and how much they might be worth.
Mark
The "worth" has 2 valid meanings :
x) how much advantage is reaped out of each pattern.
y) how much time is spent to recognize each pattern.
Very important is of course the ratio x/y.
Matthias.
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Re: pattern recognition
Hi,Matthias Gemuh wrote:mjlef wrote:Sure you can. You just have to do it. The hard part is trying to come up with the patterns, and how much they might be worth.
Mark
The "worth" has 2 valid meanings :
x) how much advantage is reaped out of each pattern.
y) how much time is spent to recognize each pattern.
Very important is of course the ratio x/y.
Matthias.
When will we expect a new version of the BigLion
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Re: pattern recognition
Dr.Wael Deeb wrote:
Hi,
When will we expect a new version of the BigLion
Hi Doctor,
a one-man project with zero beta-tester has delayed BigLion.
If you search well, you can find, download and test the ChessGUI
(but not in Windows 9x because it limits memo capacity to 64 kB).
Matths.
My engine was quite strong till I added knowledge to it.
http://www.chess.hylogic.de
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