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> I've read that the chess versions all have weak points, where if you know you are playing an AI, you can easily exploit them and win. That may have been true
by philipkglass 7y ago
> I've read that the chess versions all have weak points, where if you know you are playing an AI, you can easily exploit them and win.
That may have been true in the past but it hasn't been so for more than a decade. A laptop running Stockfish handily beats top human players, even if the players know a year in advance the exact hardware and software revision they will be playing against.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human%E2%80%93computer_chess_matches#Kramnik%E2%80%93Deep_Fritz_(2006) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human%E2%80%93computer_chess_m...
Kramnik, then still the World Champion, played a six-game match against the computer program Deep Fritz in Bonn, Germany from November 25 to December 5, 2006, losing 4–2 to the machine, with two losses and four draws. ... There was speculation that interest in human–computer chess competition would plummet as a result of the 2006 Kramnik–Deep Fritz match. According to McGill University computer science professor Monty Newborn, for example, "I don’t know what one could get out of it [a further match] at this point. The science is done.". The prediction appears to have come true, with no further major human–computer matches, as of 2019.
- yters 7y agoJuly 7 seems pretty recent: https://chess.stackexchange.com/questions/24867/a-horrible-stockfish-chess-engine-evaluation https://chess.stackexchange.com/questions/24867/a-horrible-s...
- philipkglass 7y agoJudging better than Stockfish on one board configuration isn't enough to win a game, much less a tournament series.
- yters 7y agoBut it seems there is this general problem with long term strategy that led to the board configuration misevaluation.