Sasha, I think you may find the text and links from this chapter of the 1997 MIT book HAL's Legacy to be useful to your endeavors:
http://mitpress.mit.edu/e-books/Hal/chap5/five1.html
Larry
At 01:21 PM 08/26/1999 -0500, Sasha Chislenko wrote:
>I am thinking of launching an AI chess project, with
>experience-based [meta]evolution of position and move patterns.
>Hopefully, should be relatively easy to program, and very
>depressing to play with. :-) If anybody is interested in
>working on it, let me know.
>
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