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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: 0.269s | 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. Scarblac ◴[18 Oct 24 13:17 UTC] No.41879168[source]▶
He also has very entertaining Youtube videos about the kind of wild opening discoveries Leela comes up with when contempt is set really high (ie it wants to maximally avoid draws), combined with his 2700+ commentary on them.