How AlphaZero Completely CRUSHED Stockfish

How AlphaZero Completely CRUSHED Stockfish on HackerTube: recommended by 1 Hacker News commenter across 1 month, 2021–2022.

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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 recommends it

HN points to it as an entertaining analysis of AlphaZero's play in threads about chess engines.

people recommended it: 1
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discussed on HN: 2021–2022

“See GothamChess' very entertaining analysis”
— ucha, Nov 2021, in “Acquisition of chess knowledge in AlphaZero”

What HN commenters said

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uchaNov 2021Recommends

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

anton-107Feb 2022Cites it

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

kohlermMay 2021Cites it

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

in “Positions chess engines don't understand” · View on HN

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Chess, board games & puzzles Machine learning & deep learningalphazerostockfishchess enginesgothamchessgame analysis