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Re:Magnus Carlsen to give up World Championship title by sgjohnson on Wednesday July 20, 2022 @12:54PM (#32168600)
This is flat out false. Virtually all of the experts agree on this, and in top engine and human play the percentage of games drawn is increasing, not decreasing. AlphaZero on autoplay @ 1 minute per move draws 98% of the games.

> if offered a quick draw, black will almost certainly take it

[citation needed], and 1200 elo games on lichess aren’t a valid citation

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Re:Magnus Carlsen to give up World Championship title by ChrisLomont on Wednesday July 20, 2022 @02:26PM (#32170077)
>AlphaZero on autoplay

While Alpha Zero is good, this is not very good proof. Alpha Zero is not perfect, so if there are tiny ways to win that Alpha Zero misses, it will miss it on both sides (being the same engine), so would never explore that path.

It's like claiming inbreeding will result in perfection :)

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