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Grandmaster-level chess without search

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365 points lawrenceyan | 2 comments | 17 Oct 24 19:13 UTC | HN request time: 0.423s | source
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sourcepluck ◴[18 Oct 24 03:09 UTC] No.41876043[source]▶
I believe GM and chess author (and all-round lovely fellow) Matthew Sadler rigged up Leela Zero to effectively play off intuition and do very little or no search for training games. He could usually beat it, but not always. Think it might have been in The Silicon Road to Chess Improvement.
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1. Davidzheng ◴[18 Oct 24 08:58 UTC] No.41877553[source]▶
I mean for lczero you can just set the max depth at 1 ply for example
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2. sourcepluck ◴[18 Oct 24 11:12 UTC] No.41878294[source]▶
Oh, maybe it was that simple!