Temporal-Difference Learning for Dragonchess
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arXiv:2610.01845v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Our research investigates how two adaptive AI methods, evolutionary transfer learning and TD(lambda), perform in the three-dimensional chess environment Dragonchess. The game challenges players with its unique board structure and computational load, making it an ideal setting to study how adaptive methods can update evaluation heuristics in novel environments. In this work we re-implement the Dragonchess engine, changing it from a PyGame engine to C++. This enables faster gameplay, allowing us to run 10,000 games with confidence intervals and sig
Key takeaways
- arXiv:2610.01845v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Our research investigates how two adaptive AI methods, evolutionary transfer learning and TD(lambda), perform in the three-dimensional chess environment Dragonchess.
- The game challenges players with its unique board structure and computational load, making it an ideal setting to study how adaptive methods can update evaluation heuristics in novel environments.
- In this work we re-implement the Dragonchess engine, changing it from a PyGame engine to C++.
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