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).Their results show that they are only just barely stronger than Stockfish 8, but Stockfish 9 and 10 are stronger than 8 as well.EDIT: Also meant to include a shout-out to http://www.lczero.org/ which is an open source implementation of AlphaZero chess. Here is their forum post for this paper: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/lczero/TfmaNHI99gkSECOND EDIT: I was wrong! They did play against a newer SF than 8, specifically, SF at this commit: https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/commit/b508f... , which was about 2 weeks before SF 9 was released, so maybe it is close in strength to SF 9.