Re: [Bug-gnubg] Fwd: Neural Net program for For Traditional Iranian/Turkish Backgammon - from Rick Janowski

[Øystein Schønning-Johansen]

This is indeed interesting, however I think it is a lot of work....

The problem is that you have to recode a lot of things. First of all the the move generator. Then the bearoff evaluator must be reconstructed. I guess you can use the same system as in one side bearoff databases, (where you keep the a table of the #-rolls-to-get-all-off distribution for every position), but it has to take the bearoff rules into account. Makes the distributions different.

This makes a difference also for race positions as well, so the race network must be retrained as well....

I guess you can make a simple TD(lambda) training of a neural net when all that's in place. 

So, challenging that it would be cool to try, however I think I rather spend my time on other projects... 

Hmmmm... it isn't that much changes..... maybe I should at least take a deeper look.

-Øystein