Is AlphaZero better than other chess playing programs though?
after four hours of training, it beat the current world champion chess-playing program, Stockfish.
I remember there was some controversy around this at the time.
Yeah, I remember that controversy! I think this section on Wikipedia gives a bit of insight.
The graph in this Tweet shows the elo of Stockfish as a function of time, with the introduction of the neural net nnue for Stockfish 12 highlighted.
I think the controversy is mostly irrelevant at this point. Leela performed comparably to Stockfish in the latest TCEC season and is based on Alpha Zero. It has most of the “romantic” properties mentioned in the post.
Not just in the latest TCEC season, they’ve been neck-and-neck for quite a bit now
Is AlphaZero better than other chess playing programs though?
I remember there was some controversy around this at the time.
Yeah, I remember that controversy! I think this section on Wikipedia gives a bit of insight.
The graph in this Tweet shows the elo of Stockfish as a function of time, with the introduction of the neural net nnue for Stockfish 12 highlighted.
I think the controversy is mostly irrelevant at this point. Leela performed comparably to Stockfish in the latest TCEC season and is based on Alpha Zero. It has most of the “romantic” properties mentioned in the post.
Not just in the latest TCEC season, they’ve been neck-and-neck for quite a bit now