Re:Building My Own Chess Engine
by matsemann on Thursday December 24, 2020 @04:20AM
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But alphazero is still using some kind of min-max, right? It's not a net that you input a board into and get a move out, but a net you input a board into and get a score out. So in a stockfish context it's mostly replacing the heuristic/scoring function?
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> It's not a net that you input a board into and get a move out, but a net you input a board into and get a score out.
It's both actually. The former helps guide the search (MCTS, not an Alpha-Beta minmax), and the latter helps truncate the search before an end state.