![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Then, a few weeks ago I was listening to Ben Johnson’s excellent podcast Perpetual Chess. If you wanna have a match that’s comparable you have to have Stockfish running on a supercomputer as well.”Īnd as far as I was concerned that was that. but as my friend Hikaru Nakamura said in an interview “I don’t necessarily put a lot of credibility in the results simply because my understanding is that AlphaZero is basically using the Google supercomputer and Stockfish doesn’t run on that hardware Stockfish was basically running on what would be my laptop. Yes, it was impressive *how* AlphaZero played, making speculative sacrifices, etc. The playing field was nowhere near level, and so as many people in the chess world went all agog at the results, I was in the small group of non-believers. However, a deeper look showed that the terms of the match were deeply flawed. In December of 2017 DeepMind released a paper showing that their self-learning AI, AlphaZero, had defeated the powerful and popular engine Stockfish in a 100 game match by what seemed to be an inconceivable score of 28 wins, 72 draws, and no losses. Game Changer: AlphaZero’s Groundbreaking Chess Strategies and the Promise of AI by Matthew Sadler & Natasha Regan 2019 New in Chess 416pp ![]()
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