For Chess see David Silver's work on TreeStrap It learns to master level from self-play. http://www0.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/D.Silver/web/Applications_files/bootst

For Chess see David Silver's work on TreeStrap It learns to master level from self-play. http://www0.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/D.Silver/web/Applications_files/bootstrapping.pdf http://www0.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/D.Silver/web/Applications_fil... also his lecture bootstrapping from tree based search http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~cs9414/15s1/lect/1page/TreeStrap.pdf http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~cs9414/15s1/lect/1page/TreeStrap... and Silver's overview on board game learning http://www0.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/D.Silver/web/Teaching_files/games.pdf http://www0.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/D.Silver/web/Teaching_files/g...