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Re:AlphaGo Zero: Learning from scratch by dragontamer on Wednesday October 18, 2017 @04:05PM (#15502454)
Because Chess is a simpler game than Go.

Minimax with Alpha Beta pruning works in Chess because the search tree is way smaller. The reason why all this "Monte-Carlo Tree Search + Neural Nets" are being used in Go because Minimax + Alpha Beta pruning DOESN'T work in Go.

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