Re:Mastering Chess and Shogi by Self-Play with General Reinf...
by gcp on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @04:34AM
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Your comments about Stockfish, Komodo etc are entirely subjective. "It's pretty well regarded". No it's not.
You can't disconnect the search part from the discussion, as the search selectivity is ALSO learned by the neural network.
I know it's complicated, between the hardware differences, search method used, etc. But when claiming that NNs beat hand crafted evaluation functions, keep in mind that Stockfish is probably are not the best choice to compare, since it has made different tradeoff choices to get more depth (which goes back to search method and hardware choices).