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Re:Small Models Have Arrived by inigyou on Thursday August 27, 2026 @10:24PM (#49473650)
AFAIK Stockfish still remains a traditional (some-variant-of-) minimax-search engine, but now uses a microscopic neural network to evaluate the positions at the maximum search depth rather than heuristics. I expect any pure ML engine can learn to exploit any fixed heuristics, but now Stockfish is trying to balance both strategies, which still heavily ends up on the side of raw search depth.

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