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Re:The neural network of the Stockfish chess engine by V-2 on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @04:44AM (#25760032)
"This neural engine is a trick so that Stockfish does not have to simulate all 40 moves every game states."

This optimization always done by chess engines, it's called pruning (they'd be quite crippled without it).

Maybe the neural network component is now in charge of it, but it's not a new thing.

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Re:The neural network of the Stockfish chess engine by mvanaltvorst on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @10:35AM (#25763258)
Of course, I had accumulated all other pruning strategies under the "other optimisations".
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