The Silicon Road to Chess Improvement by Matthew Sadler
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Oct 14, 2021
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Thanks for the tip — preordered. Kind of ironic that Amazon seems to only have a paperback edition, no Kindle.
Oct 27, 2021
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@RussBell - due to you good man, I have preordered the book above and just received this:
A bit of reading over the next few weeks. 👍
Do you think that the no-Kindle-version is simply down to the fact that it hasn't been released yet? Hope so, because I'd prefer it to a paper copy.
narnys wrote:
Do you think that the no-Kindle-version is simply down to the fact that it hasn't been released yet? Hope so, because I'd prefer it to a paper copy.
I believe that would be the case. It's the most plausible reason.
Powderdigit wrote:
@RussBell - due to you good man, I have preordered the book above and just received this:
A bit of reading over the next few weeks. 👍
In fact it's a great book. And intriguing (for chess players!). About a computer that teaches itself to play chess with no external input or intervention other than being shown how the pieces move and capture, and given the rules of chess. The point of the book is what strategies would a computer discover, find most effective, purely through trial and error, only by playing millions of games against itself. The answers that AlphaZero arrives at sometimes appear counter-intuitive, but ultimately make sense. This 'Game Changer' teaches us that there are, in fact, new ways to approach the game of chess.
"Game Changer" video and course now available on Chessable...
https://mailchi.mp/newinchess.com/countdown-6days-gamechanger?e=a7ccdc6856
https://www.chessable.com/game-changer-alphazeros-groundbreaking-chess-strategies-and-the-promise-of-ai-/course/19061/?utm_source=newinchess&utm_medium=partner&utm_campaign=gamechanger
"Quite inspirational. I was thinking at several points during the game: how would AlphaZero have approached this?" – World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen
Jan 11, 2022
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I am enjoying ‘Game Changer’ - as much as for the discussion around AI as around chess. In truth, the chess elements are not easy to read for newbie like me but the more I read the more I understand …. I think! 🥴
Today the follow up arrived - it was on preorder …. I wonder if it will be as engaging as Game Changer … I’ll let you know if it is helpful to my chess … I’m a few years time! 😉
Yes. "Game Changer" is a relatively advanced book, appropriate primarily for experienced, intermediate players and beyond. With novel ideas for how one might go about implementing chess strategies. Apparently and hopefully the follow-on book will help to clarify these concepts and techniques for us improving chess amateurs!
Recently published....
The Silicon Road to Chess Improvement: Chess Engine Training Methods, Opening Strategies & Middlegame Techniques by Matthew Sadler
https://www.newinchess.com/engine-training?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=silicon-road-engine-training&mc_cid=91739133e5&mc_eid=a7ccdc6856
https://www.newinchess.com/media/wysiwyg/product_pdf/9125.pdf?mc_cid=91739133e5&mc_eid=a7ccdc6856
from the author of the best selling book - "Game Changer: AlphaZero's Groundbreaking Chess Strategies and the Promise of AI" (with Natasha Regan). "Game Changer" was winner of the FIDE and English Chess Federation Chess Book of the Year Award 2019.
“Chess has been shaken to its roots by AlphaZero.” - former World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov
If the new book is anything like its predecessor it should be an exceptional one.