SF’s ability to generalize across that distribution shift seems unclear. My intuition is that a starting position with queen odds is very off distribution because in training games where both players are very strong, large material imbalances only happen very late in the game.
I’m confused by your 2nd paragraph. Do you think this experiment overestimates or underestimates resource gap required to overcome a given intelligence gap?
For my 2nd paragraph, I meant that the experiment would underestimate the required resource gap. Being down exactly by a queen at the start of a game is not as bad as being down exactly by a queen later into the game when there are fewer pieces overall left, because that’s a larger relative gap in resources.
SF’s ability to generalize across that distribution shift seems unclear. My intuition is that a starting position with queen odds is very off distribution because in training games where both players are very strong, large material imbalances only happen very late in the game.
I’m confused by your 2nd paragraph. Do you think this experiment overestimates or underestimates resource gap required to overcome a given intelligence gap?
For my 2nd paragraph, I meant that the experiment would underestimate the required resource gap. Being down exactly by a queen at the start of a game is not as bad as being down exactly by a queen later into the game when there are fewer pieces overall left, because that’s a larger relative gap in resources.