AlphaZero destroys Stockfish in Chess

Started by the-pi-guy, Dec 07, 2017, 03:43 PM

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Stockfish, which for most top players is their go-to preparation tool, and which won the 2016 TCEC Championship and the 2017 Chess.com Computer Chess Championship, didn't stand a chance. AlphaZero won the closed-door, 100-game match with 28 wins, 72 draws, and zero losses.

Oh, and it took AlphaZero only four hours to "learn" chess. Sorry humans, you had a good run

Google's AlphaZero Destroys Stockfish In 100-Game Match - Chess.com

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Alphazero is crazy good.

Do you know what ever happened with it playing Starcraft? I'd like to see it try things that are non turn based.

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Not happy with dominating go, Google's AlphaZero Al now dominates chess | ResetEra

 
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Chess has more or less been dominated by computers for over a decade - the highest rated computer chess engine is rated hundreds of ELO points higher than the strongest chess grandmaster.  That said, Google/DeepMind has adapted their generic AI learning application (called AlphaZero) to learn chess well enough to slaughter the strongest existing computer chess engine - and AlphaZero learned the rules from scratch (no opening books, endgame tables or other help) in only 4 hours. A link to the paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1712.01815.pdf An article from chess.com about the program and results (in 100 games, AlphaZero won 28, lost 0, and took 72 to a draw):https://www.chess.com/news/view/google-s-alphazero-destroys-stockfish-in-100-game-match (And as a bonus, in the same paper, the authors claim that AlphaZero was able to learn shogi well enough to beat the best computer shogi engine, and that only took two hours.)