I fully agree that Stockfish was not handicapped by its inability to use the four TPUsMilos wrote:A0 is not capable of using 6-men Syzygy otherwise they would state it in the paper.hgm wrote:But AlphaZero was not using 6-men Syzygy, right? So it was seriously handicapped.
It is rather ridiculous to assume that one is handicapped because it cannot use something it is not capable of using.
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Such typical Ignorantio Elenchi.syzygy wrote:I fully agree that Stockfish was not handicapped by its inability to use the four TPUsMilos wrote:A0 is not capable of using 6-men Syzygy otherwise they would state it in the paper.hgm wrote:But AlphaZero was not using 6-men Syzygy, right? So it was seriously handicapped.
It is rather ridiculous to assume that one is handicapped because it cannot use something it is not capable of using.
No one ever claimed SF is handicapped for not using 4 TPUs. SF was handicapped for using only 64 threads instead of 1024 real cores for example .
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Why? I simply agree with what you wrote and applied it to a specific case. I did not mean to say or imply anything beyond the single sentence I wrote.Milos wrote:Such typical Ignorantio Elenchi.syzygy wrote:I fully agree that Stockfish was not handicapped by its inability to use the four TPUsMilos wrote:A0 is not capable of using 6-men Syzygy otherwise they would state it in the paper.hgm wrote:But AlphaZero was not using 6-men Syzygy, right? So it was seriously handicapped.
It is rather ridiculous to assume that one is handicapped because it cannot use something it is not capable of using.
Many did claim that SF played against AlphaZero with a hardware disadvantage because of AlphaZero's TPUs.No one ever claimed SF is handicapped for not using 4 TPUs. SF was handicapped for using only 64 threads instead of 1024 real cores for example .