A New Kind Of Chess! - Top 10 of the 2010s - AlphaZero vs. Stockfish, 2017
The greatest revolution in chess in the 2010s is the introduction of neural network chess engines. Not only has Google Deepmind's AlphaZero proven itself stronger than traditional engines, it also plays an entirely new type of chess!
AlphaZero (as well as Lc0) is more aggressive than traditional engines, and it uses a host of new strategic concepts! Check out this brilliant victory against Stockfish, just one of many that could easily have made this list.
Top 10 Games of the 2010s
- #1: Aronian vs. Anand, 2013 (blog)
- #2: Wei Yi vs. Bruzon Bautista, 2015 (blog)
- #3: Alphazero vs. Stockfish, 2017
- #4: Aronian vs. Kramnik, 2018 (blog)
- #5: Carlsen vs. Karjakin, 2013 (blog)
- #6: Gelfand vs. Nakamura, 2010 (blog)
- #7: Dubov vs. Giri, 2019 (blog)
- #8: Bai Jinshi vs. Ding Liren, 2017 (blog)
- #9: Aronian vs. Carlsen, 2017 (blog)
- #10: Firouzja vs. Zarkovic, 2019 (blog)
Lessons:
- Pawns are not important in this new AlphaZero style of chess!
- Never fianchetto a queen.
- "When in doubt, push your rook pawns." - Bent Larsen
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