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.
Zero doesn't mean zero shot learning. It was coined by Deepmind for AlphaGo Zero where they used zero human input into the training data. It was trained entirely by playing against itself.