Sacha Droste,
a German computer scientist and software architect. As former member of the Knowledge Engineering Group headed by Johannes Fürnkranz at TU Darmstadt, he defended his master thesis on supervised reinforcement learning and temporal difference learning in chess and the chess variants Crazyhouse, Suicide Chess and Atomic Chess, using Sunsetter by Georg von Zimmermann as test-bed of his experiments 1. The matter is to learn piece values and piece-square values.
Publications
- Sacha Droste (2008). Lernen von Evaluierungsfunktionen für Schach-Varianten. Diplomarbeit (German) Technische Universität Darmstadt, advisor Johannes Fürnkranz
- Sacha Droste, Johannes Fürnkranz (2008). Learning of Piece Values for Chess Variants. Technical Report TUD–KE–2008-07, Knowledge Engineering Group, TU Darmstadt, pdf
- Sacha Droste, Johannes Fürnkranz (2008). Learning the Piece Values for three Chess Variants. ICGA Journal, Vol. 31, No. 4
External Links
References
Sacha Droste (2008). Lernen von Evaluierungsfunktionen für Schach-Varianten. Diplomarbeit (German) TU Darmstadt, advisor Johannes Fürnkranz↩︎
Sacha Droste - Knowledge Engineering Publications - Aigaion 2.0↩︎