The Human Art of Confusing Chess Engines for years !
Introduction
What are Chess Engines/Computers ?
Over the past few decades , Computers have revolutionized how we see and play chess . It is also very safe to say that Computers have surpassed current human capabilities . Computers and the AI revolution also have made great advancements in the field of Chess . For this reason Computers also have chess ELO System Ratings . The highest rating ever achieved by a human being in any format is GM Magnus Carlsen , with 2986 in the Blitz format (in 12/2017) . But , strong chess engines have ratings floating around from 3200 to max 3700 Elo ! Here are the 3 most famous and strongest chess engines !
1) AlphaZero
AlphaZero was developed by DeepMind, an artificial intelligence and research company that was later acquired by Google. It was the first engine to use reinforcement learning and self-play to train its neural networks. AlphaZero shocked the world after easily defeating Stockfish—the strongest engine at the time—in a 100-game match. AlphaZero defeated the 2016 TCEC (Season 9) world champion Stockfish, winning 155 games and losing just six games out of 1,000.
2) Stockfish
Stockfish is the strongest chess engine available to the public and has been for a considerable amount of time. It is a free open-source engine that is currently developed by an entire community. Stockfish was based on a chess engine created by Tord Romstad in 2004 that was developed further by Marco Costalba in 2008. Joona Kiiski and Gary Linscott are also considered founders.
3) LC0
LC0 , an abbreviation for Leela Chess Zero , is also a very famous and a strong chess engine . It is the second most rated chess playing 'thing' ever .
It is a free, open-source, and neural network–based chess engine and distributed computing project. Development has been spearheaded by programmer Gary Linscott, who is also a developer for the Stockfish chess engine. Leela chess Zero was adapted from the Leela Zero Go engine, which in turn was based on Google's AlphaGo Zero project. One of the purposes of Leela Chess Zero was to verify the methods in the AlphaZero paper as applied to the game of chess.
But , surprisingly sometimes human just play some nasty-but-mind boggling moves , even the computers didn't fathom the meaning of the moves for a long time . Here are some of these moves (Edit - computers are getting stronger each day)
1) Shirov's Move of the Century
2) The Most famous 'anti-engine puzzle'
3) Boris Spassky's Immortal move
4) Stockfish 14 NNUE takes 15 seconds to see a humanly normal move
A normal human that took stockfish , yes the strongest computer in the planet , that can analyses 120 million of positions per second , took 15 seconds ! That's very wierd !
5) Anand's 2 brilliancies in a miniature
While Anand's this great move capitalized Nepo's blunder to a forced mate in 5 , engines termed 2* moves as brilliant in different depths . In mid 2021 , before the Chess.com Game Review feature , it told f5 was a brilliant in depth 26 , and now we put it on max depth f6 is termed as a brilliant . The Most trivial part is a mote in 5 was termed as a brilliant move
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