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In chess, engines have long been stronger than humans, but for a long time a (super) grandmaster with an engine was still better than an engine alone.
by ma2kx 6mo ago
In chess, engines have long been stronger than humans, but for a long time a (super) grandmaster with an engine was still better than an engine alone.
- theteapot 6mo agoRoughly 20y DeepBlue to AlphaZero. I don't think that is comparable though. Use of deep neural networks was what made the machines starting with AlphaZero dominant again. I.e. we're already in the new paradigm.
- NooneAtAll3 6mo ago> a (super) grandmaster with an engine was still better than an engine alone. any examples? I'd love to watch how that went
- ma2kx 6mo agoHere is a Match where Nakamura played with Rybka against Stockfish from 2014: https://www.chess.com/news/view/stockfish-outlasts-nakamura-3634 https://www.chess.com/news/view/stockfish-outlasts-nakamura-... And here Nakamura still reached 4.5:3.5 vs Komodo in 2016 https://www.chess.com/news/view/komodo-beats-nakamura-in-final-battle-1331 https://www.chess.com/news/view/komodo-beats-nakamura-in-fin... Hikaru surely has more matches like that, but I don't know if they can be found in chess databases or if they were only streamed on YouTube.
- NooneAtAll3 6mo agothat's human+odds vs pc GP was talking about pc+human vs pc
- ma2kx 6mo agohttps://www.chess.com/news/view/stockfish-outlasts-nakamura-3634 https://www.chess.com/news/view/stockfish-outlasts-nakamura-... > In comparision, Nakamura had the assistance of an older version of Rybka (about 200 points less than Stockfish's 3200+ rating), and it ran on a 2008 MacBook. Of course, he also had his 20-plus years of chess knowledge in play.