[ExI] alpha zero

[spike]

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From: spike [mailto:spike66 at att.net] 



>…I expect this will be proven true or false in the next couple weeks with first reports showing up anytime now.  StockFish owners will take those games and see if SF really does what the paper reports, given these settings.

 

>…I can't shake the suspicion that something is amiss.  Evidence to follow.

 

>…spike

 

 

Here’s the game that makes me suspish, game 5, Alpha playing white, Stockfish just played Kh8.  

 

Notice several things about this game: Alpha already has a huuuge positional advantage: Stock’s pieces are cowering in the corners, tripping over each other, nobody is offering mutual support, what a mess!  It’s hard to tell if the black pieces are even all on the same team or if they a terrified mob fleeing from the riot police.  Were I to see that position at a tournament or club, I would estimate the south player is 500 Elo over the hapless victim on the north.

 

Meanwhile Alpha has aaaalllll that room, all that wide open attack potential, her pieces are working together and getting along well with esprit de corps, offering mutual emotional support (in a way that wood is known to do if properly guided.) 

 

A human player on the north end of this board would probably just give up in dispair before playing Kh8, but she might try one more desperation move instead…

 



 

 

It probably wouldn’t work (nothing else does either) but the mighty Stockfish would at least offer f5.  Ja?

 

But she didn’t.  StockFish is reported to have played the hopelessly wimpy Kh8, which no human player would do because it is just too embarrassing.  It is like pleading for mercy to a T-rex.  That move just isn’t StockFishish.

 

Alpha played a sniper-bullet sac Bg5!

 

Humans among us, who saw that coming?  Neither did I.  It looks so absurd, neither man nor beast would spend a second on analyzing it.  But go to a board, check it out.  It works.  It’s the killer move in this position.

 

Alejandro, other chess geeks, what think ye?

 

spike

 

 

 

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