Neurogammon wins computer olympiad

  • Authors:
  • Gerald Tesauro

  • Affiliations:
  • IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 704, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598 USA

  • Venue:
  • Neural Computation
  • Year:
  • 1989

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Abstract

Neurogammon 1.0 is a backgammon program which uses multilayer neural networks to make move decisions and doubling decisions. The networks learned to play backgammon by backpropagation training on expert data sets. At the recently held First Computer Olympiad in London, Neurogammon won the backgammon competition with a perfect record of five wins and no losses, thereby becoming the first learning program ever to win a tournament.