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Grandmaster-level chess without search

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365 points lawrenceyan | 1 comments | 17 Oct 24 19:13 UTC | HN request time: 0.205s | source
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bicsi ◴[18 Oct 24 07:00 UTC] No.41876994[source]▶
They built a dumber clone of Stockfish, and they call it ‘zero’ for some reason. What is the meaning behind ‘zero’ anyways? It used to refer to zero-shot, but now it seems like it’s just a marketing term.
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1. ralegh ◴[18 Oct 24 07:06 UTC] No.41877013[source]▶
I assume it's 'zero' turns lookahead/search, i.e. only look at the current board state.