What is the best opening move according to engines?

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Lol sources Wikipedia. I don't see Alpha Zero on that list of engines. You should read Game Changer.

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I mean really if you source Wikipedia I just lost all respect.

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I'm talking about Alpha Zero not Lc0. Last engine vs. engine test stockfish got crushed.

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Alpha Zero has yet to play in any official match outside of the closed doors of the DeepMind lab, so...not officially the strongest engine until the team feels they are willing to take that risk.

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These are the results until proven otherwise.

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Why would it matter if it's in the DeepMind lab? If it outplays stockfish in a match it wins.

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Haha the stockfish website even better!

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I guess we don't know unless we see a match, but you certainly can't just say a computer is better than Alpha Zero without it beating it in a match.

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Alpha's the champion and stockfish is the challenger. Facts.

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stassneyking wrote:

you certainly can't just say a computer is better than Alpha Zero without it beating it in a match.

Umm, yes you can. Everyone knows AZ is not the strongest. It's easy to know because AZ and stockfish played a match so that benchmarked AZ, and then stockfish improved in later versions as benchmarked by playing other engines.

Then you just compare how much AZ was better to how much SF improved. Ez

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emchel wrote:

I really would like to see for alphazero games, don't know why they don't make it play in engine vs engine tournaments.

Because it wasn't a chess engine... at least not only. It also beat the the best shogi and go engines... the point was never to play games, it was publicity for their research / engineering.

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llama wrote:
stassneyking wrote:

you certainly can't just say a computer is better than Alpha Zero without it beating it in a match.

Umm, yes you can. Everyone knows AZ is not the strongest. It's easy to know because AZ and stockfish played a match so that benchmarked AZ, and then stockfish improved in later versions as benchmarked by playing other engines.

Then you just compare how much AZ was better to how much SF improved. Ez

This is not a logically sound argument. The games would have been totally different.

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It's not some kind of linear equation.

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emchel wrote:

Ya, still it would be nice if they made it a usable engine. But their probably not going to do that, right?

It ran on specialized hardware that costs more than your house... so no, they're "not going to do that" lol happy.png

Leela combined enthusiast's computing power to train it. It's both better than alpha zero was, and is is available to normal people.

And now they even have the hybrid stuff with stockfish nnue... so yeah, AZ is a thing of the past.

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stassneyking wrote:

It's not some kind of linear equation.

You're right, the rating formula has variables as exponents... lol

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stassneyking wrote:

Why would it matter if it's in the DeepMind lab? If it outplays stockfish in a match it wins.

Because a match where two engines are both being set up and run by the team members who created one of those engines, and then reporting results from behind closed doors, is not something you would want to officially trust.  A neutral 3rd party needs to run a match for Alpha Zero to be considered "champion".  Alpha Zero not only is not a champion, it has never even competed.  It's a great test engine in a lab.

Fact.

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Leela has definitely not been proven to be better than Alpha, and stockfish nnue is taking all kinds of losses so I don't really know what you're talking about.

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I don't suspect any kind of conspiracy, but I suppose you could be right.

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@stassneyking

For someone whose daily rating is 1000 points higher than his bullet rating you sure seem to not know much about engines.

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lol I hate bullet, classical specialist here. I must admit I don't know that much about engines, just enjoyed reading Game Changer.