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AlphaZero: Shedding new light on chess, shogi, and Go

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In late 2017 we introduced AlphaZero, a single system that taught itself from scratch how to master the games of chess, shogi (Japanese chess), and Go, beating a world-champion program in each case. We were excited by the preliminary results and thrilled to see the response from members of the chess community, who saw in AlphaZero’s games a ground-breaking, highly dynamic and “unconventional” style of play that differed from any chess playing engine that came before it.

December 6, 2018 Research David Silver, Thomas Hubert, Julian Schrittwieser, Demis Hassabis In late 2017 we introduced AlphaZero, a single system that taught itself from scratch how to master the games of chess, shogi(Japanese chess), and Go, beating a world-champion program in each case. We were excited by the preliminary results and thrilled to see the response from members of the chess community, who saw in AlphaZero’s games a ground-breaking, highly dynamic and “unconventional” style of play that differed from any chess playing engine that came before it. Today, we are delighted to…

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