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Opening book I agree, but tablebases are definitely not human knowledge. They are a bruteforced database of every possible position, or in essence a precomputed
by TomatoTomato 8y ago
Opening book I agree, but tablebases are definitely not human knowledge. They are a bruteforced database of every possible position, or in essence a precomputed position. Put simply, giving a massive time advantage to the user during the late middle and endgame.
So if A0 wasn't built to access them, but stockfish did in the match, then that would be an unfair advantage.
- dragontamer 8y ago> So if A0 wasn't built to access them, but stockfish did in the match, then that would be an unfair advantage. Why is that an unfair advantage? AlphaZero developers wanted to prove that their AI was better than Stockfish. They failed to do that. If AlphaZero wasn't built to access Tablebases, then they should have built it to access tablebases. Don't unfairly gimp Stockfish because you're lazy at programming.
- ganeshkrishnan 8y agoAlpha zero can access the tablebase. This proof of concept was to let both the engines play with minimal interference of outside pre computed knowledge.