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Recent Alpha zero vs Stockfish 8 match.
Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2018 2:37 am
by Leo
https://www.chess.com/news/view/updated ... game-match
"The machine-learning engine also won all matches against "a variant of Stockfish that uses a strong opening book," according to DeepMind. Adding the opening book did seem to help Stockfish, which finally won a substantial number of games when AlphaZero was Black—but not enough to win the match."
So the other games SF has no opening book?!
SF began to win with white and a book. Most of Alpha zeros wins are with white also.
So it sound likes AZero crushed SF 8 with no opening book. lol. Wow. I just cant figure this out. I don't trust these people.
Re: Recent Alpha zero vs Stockfish 8 match.
Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2018 3:21 am
by Dann Corbit
If neither engine had a book, it is completely fair.
Re: Recent Alpha zero vs Stockfish 8 match.
Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2018 3:45 am
by jhellis3
A0 trained with movecount as an input....
Re: Recent Alpha zero vs Stockfish 8 match.
Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2018 9:51 am
by jp
Leo wrote: ↑Sat Dec 29, 2018 2:37 am
Leo, there is a whole thread on this topic:
http://talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=69175
Re: Recent Alpha zero vs Stockfish 8 match.
Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2018 10:43 am
by Uri Blass
Dann Corbit wrote: ↑Sat Dec 29, 2018 3:21 am
If neither engine had a book, it is completely fair.
I do not agree.
A0 played the opening position so many times that it is better without books.
A0 is optimized to play the opening position well when stockfish is optimized to play in all the tests not from the opening position.
If you want to make a fair competition with another program the only fair way is simply to contact the authors of the opponent before you do the competition so everybody can decide about a book to use or not to use book.
If you decide that the book of the opponent is fixed(no book or a specific book) then you can decide to publish results only if you win and it is not fair.
The unfair thing is that A0 did not tell that they are going to compete against stockfish before the competition so the stockfish team could choose version of stockfish and book and and they had no risk of losing because if they lose they publish nothing and we know nothing.
Re: Recent Alpha zero vs Stockfish 8 match.
Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2018 10:57 am
by corres
Dann Corbit wrote: ↑Sat Dec 29, 2018 3:21 am
If neither engine had a book, it is completely fair.
No.
NN itself is the book.
Opening + middle game + endgame book together.
Re: Recent Alpha zero vs Stockfish 8 match.
Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2018 5:29 pm
by Leo
Thanks. I will look at it. I am late to the game.
Re: Recent Alpha zero vs Stockfish 8 match.
Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2018 5:30 pm
by Leo
Uri Blass wrote: ↑Sat Dec 29, 2018 10:43 am
Dann Corbit wrote: ↑Sat Dec 29, 2018 3:21 am
If neither engine had a book, it is completely fair.
I do not agree.
A0 played the opening position so many times that it is better without books.
A0 is optimized to play the opening position well when stockfish is optimized to play in all the tests not from the opening position.
If you want to make a fair competition with another program the only fair way is simply to contact the authors of the opponent before you do the competition so everybody can decide about a book to use or not to use book.
If you decide that the book of the opponent is fixed(no book or a specific book) then you can decide to publish results only if you win and it is not fair.
The unfair thing is that A0 did not tell that they are going to compete against stockfish before the competition so the stockfish team could choose version of stockfish and book and and they had no risk of losing because if they lose they publish nothing and we know nothing.
This is pretty much my line of thinking.
Re: Recent Alpha zero vs Stockfish 8 match.
Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2018 5:35 pm
by hgm
corres wrote: ↑Sat Dec 29, 2018 10:57 am
Dann Corbit wrote: ↑Sat Dec 29, 2018 3:21 am
If neither engine had a book, it is completely fair.
No.
NN itself is the book.
Opening + middle game + endgame book together.
And the same holds for Stockfish, obviously.
Re: Recent Alpha zero vs Stockfish 8 match.
Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2018 7:22 pm
by corres
hgm wrote: ↑Sat Dec 29, 2018 5:35 pm
corres wrote: ↑Sat Dec 29, 2018 10:57 am
Dann Corbit wrote: ↑Sat Dec 29, 2018 3:21 am
If neither engine had a book, it is completely fair.
No.
NN itself is the book.
Opening + middle game + endgame book together.
And the same holds for Stockfish, obviously.
In Stockfish where is a book?