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Re:Mastering Chess and Shogi by Self-Play with General Reinf... by grumpopotamus on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @02:29AM (#15859238)
The Stockfish engine provided by lichess on the game you linked doesn't seem to mind those moves - it has most of them in the top few lines after a few seconds of thinking time.

Qe1 and Kh1 are fine if the plan is to prepare f4.

35. Nc4 stuck around at the #2 / #3 best move for as long as I ran that position.

Remember the Stockfish in the paper had 64 cores so you'd have to run your Stockfish for a while to get it to arrive at the same principle variation.

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Re:Mastering Chess and Shogi by Self-Play with General Reinf... by zwischenzug on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @02:32AM (#15859255)
Yeah that's right. I think this might say more about the efficacy of chess engines over a certain point vs human analysis rather than the 'bullshit' I called.

I'd certainly fancy my chances against this AI more than Stockfish on a lower power.

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