1.7M views · Dec 7, 2017 · 15:37 · 2 HN recommenders · 3 mentions · discussed 2019–2025
agadmator walks through a game in which DeepMind's AlphaZero beat Stockfish, ending in a famous zugzwang that leaves the engine helpless. He gives commentary on the moves.
Why Hacker News points people here: HN recommends it as a striking, well-explained example of AlphaZero's play and of zugzwang.
“A great example I love showing people is Alpha Zero's infamous "Immortal Zugzwang Game" against Stockfish”HN comment, 2019
“A great example I love showing people is Alpha Zero's infamous "Immortal Zugzwang Game" against Stockfish”
Stockfish crushed in a seemingly sudden trap.
A great example I love showing people is Alpha Zero's infamous "Immortal Zugzwang Game" against Stockfish [0]. Stockfish gets utterly annihilated in a trap that seemingly springs out of nowhere, though of course the reality is that Alpha Zero was actually really in control the entire time. [0] this video
“Anyone who's interested to see how brilliant AlphaZero played against the best chess computer (then), with solid explanations”
AlphaZero beating Stockfish with solid explanations.
Anyone who's interested to see how brilliant AlphaZero played against the best chess computer (then), with solid explanations: this video
Example where Stockfish misses an obvious move.
Here’s a chess stackexchange of positions that stump engines link It basically comes down to “ideas that are rare enough that they were never programmed into a chess engine”. Blockades or positions where no progress is possible are a common theme. Engines will often keep tree searching where a human sees an obvious repeating pattern. Here’s also an example where 2 engines are playing, and deep mind finds a move that I think would be obvious to most grandmasters, yet stockfish misses it this video That being said, I’m not sure that this necessarily correlates with brilliancy. There are a few of these that I would probably get in classical time and I’m not a particularly brilliant player.
