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Anyone Else Following the World Chess Championship?

Twilight Hue

Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
Gosh it's been so long since I was involved in chess matches. No doubt they can be nail biting.

I still remember IBM's deep blue match and subsequent matches against AI. That piqued my interest but has waned since the Larry Christiansen and Bobby Fischer era. I was a huge fan of Anatoly Karpov back in the day.

My heart sunk with his defeat with Garry Kasparov.
 

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
Chess....it's the soccer of the board game world.
Go is much better....
No draws. (OK maybe a draw 0.00001% of the time.)
Bigger board means strategies are more global.
Multiple raging battles affecting each other.
 

ecco

Veteran Member
Chess....it's the soccer of the board game world.
Go is much better....
No draws. (OK maybe a draw 0.00001% of the time.)
Bigger board means strategies are more global.
Multiple raging battles affecting each other.

These are not World Champion Matches. They are Human World Champion Matches. Computers were not allowed.
 

Twilight Hue

Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
These are not World Champion Matches. They are Human World Champion Matches. Computers were not allowed.
I wonder if anyone had competitive matches between AI? I can see a "sport" growing out of that.
 

ecco

Veteran Member
AlphaGo plays itself at top professional levels.
(That's how it learned the game.)
I don't know how much general interest there is in such games though.
AlphaGo vs AlphaGo: self play games | DeepMind
AI versus AI: Self-Taught AlphaGo Zero Vanquishes Its Predecessor
Blown away.

“In training, AlphaGo Zero discovered, played and ultimately learned to prefer a series of new joseki [corner sequence] variants that were previously unknown,” says DeepMind spokesperson Jon Fildes. Go games typically start with plays in the grid’s corners, allowing one player to gain a better overall position on the board. “Like move 37 in the second game against Lee Sedol, these moments of algorithmic inspiration give us a glimpse of the creativity of AlphaGo and the potential of AI,”​
 
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