[extropy-chat] bayesian chess program

[Russell Wallace]

On 7/25/05, spike <spike66 at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> The computer chess world is buzzing about this
> Unix guru who claims he taught a Bayesian spam
> filter to play chess, sort of.
> 
> http://dbacl.sourceforge.net/spam_chess-1.html
> 
> Bayesian gurus, I think it is a joke, but see
> what you make of it.

Nope, it's true. Note that it doesn't play at all well - marginally
better than random - the feat is that it can do it at all.

- Russell