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365 points lawrenceyan | 1 comments | 17 Oct 24 19:13 UTC | HN request time: 0.212s | source
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BoardsOfCanada ◴[18 Oct 24 05:38 UTC] No.41876628[source]▶
It's somewhat telling that they chose Stockfish as the oracle and not AlphaZero.
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epolanski ◴[18 Oct 24 11:08 UTC] No.41878266[source]▶
Stockfish is stronger than AlphaZero or any other chess engine from quite some time.

Another interesting tidbit, both engines share (or at least, shared) the same lead developer.

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1. vlovich123 ◴[18 Oct 24 15:51 UTC] No.41880543[source]▶
To be fair though, deep mind hasn’t been working to improve alpha zero for chess playing. Their focus is a bit difference than the dedicated volunteers working on stockfish (+ it’s been a few years)