What is the best chess opening for white according to. But for me chess is main stage competition, and i feel the competitors should be treated fairly. No opening book, no endgame tables, and apparently no complicated algorithms dissecting minute differences between center pawns and side pawns. Top 20 alphazero stockfish games chosen by grandmaster matthew sadler. Alphazeros results wins green, losses red vs the latest stockfish and vs stockfish with a strong opening book. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading game changer. Alpha zeros alien chess shows the power, and the peculiarity, of ai. Oh, and it took alphazero only four hours to learn chess. Since alphazero taught himself to play chess, it would be interesting if he doesnt use an opening book and let stockfish use a book. The deepmind team behind alphago have now tried their hand at chess and shogi, with a new paper out today. Game changer is a summary metaanalysis of the contests between the a. Alphazeros groundbreaking chess strategies and the promise of ai kindle edition by sadler, matthew, regan, natasha, kasparov, garry. Theres zero reason why alphazero would see stockfishs losing moves frequently in selfplay more than any other losing moves, and the odds of seeing a given 50move game several times in selfplay over 44 million games is nil. A0s expected score in this seemingly dry position with five pawns against six was.
A general reinforcement learning algorithm that masters chess. If someone went to alpha zero and said stockfish is going to play the queens gambit it wouldnt. Back then, there were doubters who suggested that the match format and time controls were to stockfishs disadvantage, as they only had a minute per move, and was operating without an opening book. Thats for alphazero, but i assume it was the same for stockfish to compare like for like, i. The book is focused on showing how alphazero s drive for piece mobility, open lines, and disruption of the opponents castled position despite alphazero s often being down in material makes a. Round 1 features the sample 10 games published in december 2017, from a 100game match against stockfish. Alphazero defeated stockfish in each opening, suggesting that alphazero has mastered a wide spectrum of chess play. If someone went to alpha zero and said stockfish is going to play the queens gambit it wouldnt matter. It is also much stronger than the best human chess grandmasters. It would be interesting to see how alphazero handles the openings. Alphazero destroyed stockfish in out of 100 games, 12 of. Both of stockfishs wins arose from positions in which nakamura, as is typical for his playing style, pressed for a win instead of acquiescing.
Is alphazero really a scientific breakthrough in ai. Evans gambit on the highest level alphazero vs stockfish. But this time around, it looks like stockfish had a fair shake. There is also a fascinating breakdown of its favourite 6ply sequence in. Deepminds alphazero is a general purpose artificial intelligence system that with only the rules of the game and hours of playing games against itself was able to reach superhuman levels of play in chess, shogi and go. Stockfish vs alphazero 01 67 2017 alphazero stockfish c65 ruy lopez, berlin defense 2. Stockcrip used 1 thread, a 16 mb hash table analogous to the hash table used in the late 2017 alphazero vs. Dec 08, 2017 stockfish computer vs alphazero computer alphazero stockfish 2017, london eng, rd 1, dec04 spanish game. Games from the 2018 science paper a general reinforcement learning algorithm that masters chess, shogi and go through selfplay. Alphazero vs stockfish 10 68 2017 alphazero stockfish e16 queens indian 4.
Googles alphazero destroys highestrated chess engine in. Alphazeros opening repertoire is notable in that it avoids 1 e4 except. Stockfish wins computer championship 225 points by wglb on nov 18, 2017. Dec 07, 2018 in each opening, alphazero defeated stockfish. Its worth noting that even if stockfish didnt have an opening book for the canonical 100 game match, page 6 of the paper shows that alphazero is dominant. Chess games of alphazero computer, career statistics, famous victories, opening repertoire, pgn download. In a game match, alphazero won with a score of 155 wins to 6 losses, with the rest drawn. Stockfish computer vs alphazero computer alphazero stockfish 2017, london eng, rd 1, dec04 spanish game. I think it was just a nasty rumor started by nakamura misunderstanding things. Deepmind also played a series of games using the tcec opening positions.
Alphazero and stockfish except brainfish used no opening book, 12 common. Nakamura was the worlds fifthbest human chess player at the time of the match, while stockfish were denied use of its opening book and endgame tablebase. Dec 06, 2018 adding the opening book did seem to help stockfish, which finally won a substantial number of games when alphazero was blackbut not enough to win the match. Stockfish, which for most top players is their goto preparation tool, and which won the 2016 tcec championship and the 2017 computer chess championship, didnt stand a chance. Dec 09, 2018 about a year ago, alphazero defeated a version of the stockfish chess engine by a score of 28 wins, 72 draws and 0 losses. In chess, alphazero defeated stockfish, winning 155 games and losing 6 games out of. Alpha zero gave up on many openings after a few hours, does.
Adding the opening book did seem to help stockfish, which finally won a. About a year ago, alphazero defeated a version of the stockfish chess engine by a score of 28 wins, 72 draws and 0 losses. Classic engines using minimax and alpha beta pruning, particularly multicore engines. Did stockfish use an opening book against alphazero. Alpha zero gave up on many openings after a few hours, does that mean he refuted them all. Accompanying this eyeopening news was a tantalising prepaper that. I dont understand how such content can appear in a scientific paper. Googles alphazero destroys stockfish in 100game match. Alphazero won the closeddoor, 100game match with 28 wins, 72 draws, and zero losses.
This is played with a tcec opening the first eight moves are book, but rare. Here is the game, that turns out to be very exciting. You will need to use your own ucicompatible chess program. Updated alphazero crushes stockfish in new 1,000game. List of how alphazero evaluates openings chess stack. The stockfish 8 configuration was the same as one used in the tcec world championship, but alphazero scored 155 wins to only 6 for stockfish. But again, it is impressive that an algorithm can reach a comparable strength to a handcrufted chess engine by just knowing how to move the pieces. We played additional matches against the most recent development version of stockfish 27 and a variant of stockfish that uses a strong opening book 28. The future is here alphazero learns chess chessbase. For the uninitiated, stockfish 8 won the 2016 top chess engine championship and is probably the strongest chess engine right now.
We also played a match that started from the set of opening positions used in the 2016 tcec world championship, along with a series of additional matches against the most recent development version of stockfish, and a variant of stockfish that uses a strong opening book. Doesnt matter if everyone knows the opening stockfish is going to play it would still get a good position unless it was given a bad opening but never a losing one. The first time around there were pretty significant complaints about the format of the match between the chess superprograms. But what is opening explorer, really, but a chronicle of human error. They tried allowing stockfish to use a book while alphazero did not, and even a tcecstyle match using the exact same openings tcec used in a superfinal a couple of years back, as well as time handicap matches with alphazero getting one third the time stockfish got or even onetenth. Stockfish had to do all this on its own, one minute thinking time per move. Therefore, it is more apropiate to think the alpha zero algorith as a kind of probe that decodified the oponent engine openings book.
Alphazero crushes stockfish, for real this time abstract. Alphazeros mcts scaled more effectively with thinking time than either stockfish or elmo, calling into question the widely held belief that alphabeta search is inherently superior in these domains. Alphazero crushes stockfish in new 1,000game match. Alphazero also bested stockfish in a series of timeodds matches, soundly beating the traditional engine even at time odds of 10 to one. This nimzoenglish line featured in 11 of the alpha zero stockfish games, with alphazero scoring 5 wins and 6 draws.
Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Updated alphazero crushes stockfish in new 1,000game match. A general reinforcement learning algorithm that masters. I keep seeing all over the internet that stockfish didnt have access to its opening book during the match with alphazero. Alphazero settled on a couple of openings by the end of its learning. To verify the robustness of alphazero, we played additional matches that started from common human openings. Frankensteindracula gambit of course i was very curious how alphazero would play the frankensteindracula gambit with black.
Alphazero vs stockfish 10 52 2017 alphazero stockfish c11 french 3. Shedding new light on chess, shogi, and go deepmind. Chessmasters praise alphazero ai games and says it has an. Code and data are equivalent for example, instead of an opening book that says if you play white, open with pawn e4 one could have an evaluation function that says after the first move of white, having a pawn on e4 is worth a million. Although the match conditions deserve a little bit of discussion stockfish had no opening book, and time cont. I dont think they would give stockfish an opening thats been refuted. Feb 08, 2019 the eyecatching victory of alphazero, the artificialintelligence program that taught itself to play chess, over the no 1 computer engine stockfish, has evoked comparisons with human legends. Similar to stockfish, elmo ran under the same conditions as in the 2017 csa championship. Its worth noting that even if stockfish didnt have an opening book for the canonical 100 game match, page 6 of the paper shows that alphazero is dominant when you start from a variety of common openings. No opening book, no endgame tables, and apparently no complicated algorithms dissecting minute differences. The eyecatching victory of alphazero, the artificialintelligence program that taught itself to play chess, over the no 1 computer engine stockfish, has evoked comparisons with human legends.
To ensure diversity against opponents brainfish with a deterministic opening book, alphazero used a small amount of randomization in its opening moves. Stockfish is one of the strongest chess engines in the world. Googles alphazero destroys highestrated chess engine in 100. Alphazeros groundbreaking chess strategies and the promise of ai.
The book is focused on showing how alphazeros drive for piece mobility, open lines, and disruption of the opponents castled position despite alphazeros often being down in material makes a. Nonetheless i wonder why they would handicap stockfish this way. Alphazero s opening repertoire is notable in that it avoids 1 e4 except in themed games, because it believes that 1 e4 e5 is equal. This is clearly indicated by the figure, where the matches against the latest version is marked latest stockfish. Alphazero holds the advantage all the time, but stockfish manages to escape to a. After alphazeros defeat of stockfish there has been talk of the world no 1. Thats clearly, what what alphazeros saying is the right approach again stockfish nothing any of us can repeat, but it is an interesting take away after bishop the queen of, for queen of the six and the queen moves the mood g five comes in and as you can see, stockfish likes his position that about oh, and the left says well, i think im kinda. It also played a match that started from the set of opening positions used in the 2016 tcec world championship, along with a series of additional matches against the most recent development version of stockfish, and a variant of stockfish that uses a strong opening book. Kh7 not bh7 4 be3 mate 4 g5 kh8 5 bd4 kh7 6 ba1b2c3e5 kh8 7. Dec 07, 2017 stockfish, which for most top players is their goto preparation tool, and which won the 2016 tcec championship and the 2017 computer chess championship, didnt stand a chance. This diagram shows that the longer alphazero had to think, the more it improved compared to stockfish. Im willing to bet that if either stockfish or alphazero could play blacks sixth move. Ceo of deepmind is a strong chess player, he didnt know that. They tried allowing stockfish to use a book while alphazero did not, and even.
One that seems inexcusable to me is that stockfish was denied the use of its opening book. See below for three sample games from this match with analysis by stockfish 10 and video analysis by gm robert hess. Alphazero stockfish, game 7 analyzed i understand that this was a scientific experiment most of all and a minor side show from deepminds perspective. Alpha zero gave up on many openings after a few hours. The news about alphazero beating stockfish 6436 without a single loss after just four hours of selftraining has shocked the chess world. Did he just refute the french, the carokahn, the sicilian and so on. The latest advance from deepmind behaves in a very surprising way. Alphazero and stockfish except brainfish used no opening book, 12 common human positions as well as the 2016 tcec season 9 superfinal positions were played, originally selected by jeroen noomen.
The christmas special alphazero vs stockfish youtube. Stockfish is a powerful and open source chess engine. Inspired by the recent release of the alphazero games, and the new book game changer a great read. Theres a tweet from deepmind saying no opening books, no endgame database, no nothing. I have seen some commentary that implies that stockfish did not have access to an opening book in its muchreported match with alphazero, but i cannot find a conclusive citation, and my inability to do so has me wondering if maybe stockfish did have an opening book after all. Did stockfish have access to an opening book in its games against. Alphazero the playing conditions are far from being scientific for reasons already mentioned.
Top 20 alphazerostockfish games chosen by grandmaster matthew sadler. Mastering chess and shogi by selfplay with a general reinforcement learning algorithm david silver, 1thomas hubert, julian schrittwieser, ioannis antonoglou, 1matthew lai, arthur guez, marc lanctot,1 laurent sifre, 1dharshan kumaran, thore graepel,1 timothy lillicrap, 1karen simonyan, demis hassabis1 1deepmind, 6 pancras square, london n1c 4ag. Deepminds alphazero shows unprecedented growth in ai. Alphazero was not taught the game in the traditional sense. In late 2017 experiments, it quickly demonstrated itself superior to any technology that we would otherwise consider leadingedge. The continuation of the alphazero stockfish chess match. Yes, alpha zero calculated best opening moves during its training. Mastering chess and shogi by selfplay with a general. Adding the opening book did seem to help stockfish, which finally won a substantial number of games when alphazero was blackbut not enough to win the match. Google deepmind ai alphazero vs stockfish 8 queens indian defense e18 1.