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Re:Ask HN: Can we adapt AlphaZero's self-play technique for ... by forgot-my-pw on Friday December 08, 2017 @05:22PM (#15882594)
I don't think we can learn much from how an engine learns, but we certainly can learn from its results.

For example, there's this interesting discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/chess/comments/7ibzq4/stockfish_vs_...

Because Alphazero did not learn from human games, it looks at the different pieces without attaching values like we do. It has no problems sacrificing a higher "valued" piece for the sake of its strategy.

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