AlphaZero AI teaches itself chess and crushes Stockfish!!

AlphaZero the AI from Googe's subsiduary company DeepMind has defeated Stockfish in a match after mastering the game of chess in a mere 4 hours. AlphaZero was only taught the rules of the game but through a tabula rasa methodology it taught itself to play via trial and error by playing itself and using neural networks.

A truly historic moment in chess history!

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[Pintkonan]

Philidor: "Pawns are the soul of Chess."
Alpha0: "No, they aren't."

[RRRaszkolnyikov]

The fish was caught, cooked and eaten...

[petergreen]

Thank you very much for this demonstration and lesson .

[HighLigerBimBam]

c4 allowed Qe6 by preventing exchange through controlling d5... Insane. It must have seen all the way to the end!

[nitbot]

pretty scary that AIs are going to take over the world within 5 years rip humanity

[zexisak]

Yeah, it beat an old SF on 64 cores, would like to see it in Tcec to prove it’s real strength.

[aaronsmith]

The Qa4 move keeps the knight from developing.

[naimulhaq]

When will Google show us opening by machines with ratings of 10, 000 or 20, 000 when 4000 rating of alpha zero algorithm can produce amazing opening we never seen before, besides Traxler, perhaps.

[govindmprabhu]

What took humans upwards of 400 years to arrive at this entity did it in 4 hours !
Wow(wrt opening play)

[subhashishtripathy]

Hi it seems alpha is more like super grandmaster rather than chess engine .it playing with logic and great positional skill like Kasparov. Where we can get alpha zero for practice chess

[DuendeDude]

very insteresting indeed! I wonder what top chess players think about AlphaZero's "style" of play

[RAJUYADAV-tzui]

What is the elo rating of alpha zero deep mind engine?

[Nemesis_HEX]

c4 is quantic move briliant move for alpha zero go :)

[Svnttr]

If anyone is going to solve chess its A.I.

[nivagnoswal]

'defeated Stockfish in a match '...Its been my experience that what is said initially is often not relevant but what is being left out is often very relevant. This was a series of games of bullet chess. Why not make the time controls longer? Google like all institutions tends to be very self-serving and wishes to put themselves in the best light. In a world where the only thing that matters is to make things go faster the truth often goes a begging.