Show HN: AlphaZero Science paper
It's a shame they still played against 2016 Stockfish (Stockfish 8), when Stockfish 9 or Stockfish Dev were available (Stockfish 10 is out now, but only very recently, so I can understand why they didn't use it).<p>Their results show that they are only just barely stronger than Stockfish 8, but Stockfish 9 and 10 are stronger than 8 as well.<p>EDIT: Also meant to include a shout-out to <a href="http://www.lczero.org/" rel="nofollow">http://www.lczero.org/</a> which is an open source implementation of AlphaZero chess. Here is their forum post for this paper: <a href="https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/lczero/TfmaNHI99gk" rel="nofollow">https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/lczero/TfmaNHI99gk</a><p>SECOND EDIT: I was wrong! They did play against a newer SF than 8, specifically, SF at this commit: <a href="https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/commit/b508f9561cc2302c129efe8d60f201ff03ee72c8" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/commit/b508f...</a> , which was about 2 weeks before SF 9 was released, so maybe it is close in strength to SF 9.