I like the idea of starting with simpler games to get a feel for how close AZ is to the minimax optimal strategy. For instance, just put chess or go on a smalle

I like the idea of starting with simpler games to get a feel for how close AZ is to the minimax optimal strategy. For instance, just put chess or go on a smaller board. Part of DeepMind's claim is that their algorithm doesn't need tweaking when one changes the game, so this should be an easy experiment for them to run. I wonder if there is any principled statistical way to test, given a set of players, how far the best of them is from optimal. Hmm....