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http://science.sciencemag.org/content/s ... 0.full.pdf

not a lot of new info here but they tried using an opening book for sf at least

trulses wrote: ↑Thu Dec 06, 2018 8:42 pm not a lot of new info here but they tried using an opening book for sf at least

Depends what you mean by "tried". For the primary results, still no opening book.

1) Match vs. old version of SF.

2) AZ vs. SF + 17,= 75,- 8. It's score with TCEC openings.

sovaz1997 wrote: ↑Thu Dec 06, 2018 10:05 pm 1) Match vs. old version of SF.

2) AZ vs. SF + 17,= 75,- 8. It's score with TCEC openings.

And still SF8 in (2), right?

Yes, SF8 on second place

At 155 win, 6 losses and 839 draws that makes alpha zero only 52 elo better then stockfish. On vastly faster hardware. That is not a huge lead over stockfish.

sovaz1997 wrote: ↑Thu Dec 06, 2018 10:22 pm Yes, SF8 on second place

I don't know the elo diff for that (TCEC openings) result off the top of my head, but not very impressive, is it?

mwyoung wrote: ↑Thu Dec 06, 2018 10:57 pm At 155 win, 6 losses and 839 draws that makes alpha zero only 52 elo better then stockfish. On vastly faster hardware. That is not a huge lead over stockfish.

And that's SF8 with no opening book & no selected openings for the games.

I think they made a correction and said the new 1000 game match was with a newer version of stockfish. But +52 elo is what you can get with stockfish 11. At a much cheaper price then the hardware A0 is running.