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What I'm reading: an existing chess engine that runs on much poorer hardware and for some weird reason was deprived of its usual initialization data achieved 73
by romaniv 9y ago
What I'm reading: an existing chess engine that runs on much poorer hardware and for some weird reason was deprived of its usual initialization data achieved 73% draw rate against a ridiculously hyped "deep" neural network/MCTS algorithm.
It's interesting that AlphaZero was finally applied to a different game, though. I wonder what architectural changes they had to make. I've read that pure MCTS isn't that good at playing Chess. How true is that?
- qeternity 9y agoAlphaGo and AlphaGo Zero are different than Alpha Zero.
- red75prime 9y agoAll the hardware you can throw at Stockfish probably will not do much of a difference, as DeepMind will just train AlphaZero for another couple of hours to surpass it. Draws are common in high-level chess. There's a belief that perfect play by both sides will result in a draw. They changed input format and amount of noise (which facilitates exploration) to account for different branching factor.