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Re:Mastering Chess and Shogi by Self-Play with General Reinf... by nl on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @09:30AM (#15861243)
Presumably they both had equal clock time - that is a standard chess rule so it would be surprising to see it different.
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Re:Mastering Chess and Shogi by Self-Play with General Reinf... by setr on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @10:20AM (#15861667)
Wall clock != cpu clock

I can do more in the same wall time with a faster cpu(s); I can afford inefficiencies that the opponent cannot, and accomplish just as much.

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