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> TD Gammon, one of the very first algorithms to reach superhuman levels in a nontrivial game, learned by self play. Thank you for mentioning this! Neural-net
by narimiran 9y ago
> TD Gammon, one of the very first algorithms to reach superhuman levels in a nontrivial game, learned by self play.
Thank you for mentioning this! Neural-nets self-trained bots have been a thing for quite a while in backgammon. Chronologically, from my memory: TD Gammon, Jellyfish, Snowie, GnuBG [1], XG (eXtreme Gammon) [2]
[1] http://gnubg.org/ http://gnubg.org/
[2] http://extremegammon.com/ http://extremegammon.com/