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From: Owen.RANSEN@cern.ch (Owen RANSEN)
Subject: Re: Chess and Neural nets
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In article <3kl3lb$27a@cantua.canterbury.ac.nz>, 
vannobel@elec.canterbury.ac.nz says...
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>Hi,
>
>I understand that some time ago there were some posts on the topic of 
using
>neural nets to play chess.  Does anyone have any references to this 
subject?
>At this stage I'm interested in any information I can get!
>
>Thanks,
>Robert
Strangely enough there is a short mention of the difficulites
 of chess and neural nets in an article on backgammon and NN
in the current (March) issue of Communications of the ACM.

Basically backgammon is great for neural nets, and chess isn't.

Owen

