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How AlphaZero Completely CRUSHED Stockfish

4.9M views · May 13, 2021 · 33:48 · 1 HN recommender · 3 mentions · discussed 2021–2022

GothamChess walks through AlphaZero's famous games against Stockfish, highlighting its unusual pawn sacrifices and positional style. It is aimed at chess fans rather than ML specialists.

Why Hacker News points people here: HN points to it as an entertaining analysis of AlphaZero's play in threads about chess engines.

“See GothamChess' very entertaining analysis”HN comment, 2021

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“See GothamChess' very entertaining analysis”

Entertaining analysis of AlphaZero's uncanny pawn sacrifices against Stockfish.

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After watching some of the games AlphaZero played against Stockfish, I have to say I don't really agree that the moves make sense to a grandmaster... AlphaZero has this uncanny ability to sacrifice many pawns to restrict the movement of the opponent's pieces, something that you might see in advanced play but nowhere near the extent you see it with AlphaZero. Many more of the moves it plays are hard to make sense of compared to a classic engine such as Stockfish. See GothamChess' very entertaining analysis: this video

in “Acquisition of chess knowledge in AlphaZero” · view on HN
Cites itkohlermMay 2021

“chess engines improved very much lately with regards to "understanding" chess positions.”

Example of how far chess engines have progressed in understanding.

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Just look at this this video chess engines improved very much lately with regards to "understanding" chess positions.

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Cites itanton-107Feb 2022

Related AlphaZero versus Stockfish match coverage.

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Would be interesting to see AlphaZero in this contest, but I don't think it is open source [1] How AlphaZero Completely CRUSHED Stockfish this video

in “Top Chess Engine Championship” · view on HN