[ExI] alpha zero

[Alejandro Dubrovsky]

On 09/12/17 16:43, spike wrote:
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>> ...I set the position up on StockFish 8. My computer doesn't have 64 CPU threads, so I only gave it one but I let it mull on it for a few hours to compensate. It flips between the two but it does seem to prefer Kh8 after all...
>> ...d5 44. Kd2 b4 45. Bxa5 which does look pretty tricky. If I play that through, its evaluation at the end is a solid 0.00...
>> ...but this position is so asymmetric and strange that I don't know what to think or how to go about winning it for white. Spike?
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> I have a theory which exonerates DeepMind of any attempt at
> deception, a theory which I think is most likely the right one.
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> The DeepMind guys aren't really specifically chess guys, they are
> programmers.  So they aren't specifically trying to necessarily
> create the top chess program, but rather demonstrate a paradigm where
> software can teach itself, given a clear end goal.

I looked them up: that Dharshan Kumaran that appears in the paper's list 
of authors appears to be a brittish GM (photos match up) and one of the 
founders of the company is a 2200. Relatively sure this is real.