Attack | DeepMind's AlphaZero Game Changer 10 | AlphaZero vs Stockfish 8

[@PowerPlayChess]

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[@HH-wv7no]

World championship coverage, then alpha zero coverage, you have set the bar very high! Love what you have done so far. #1 chess commentator. Very excited to see whats next Daniel.

[@vaibhavrajput2284]

This series on AlphaZero is pure gold! Thanks GM King

[@Varney_of_London]

I love the way that Alpha can completely paralyze an opponent while simultaneously coordinate its own pieces in perfect harmony. Alpha's positional strength is off the charts.

[@burt591]

Thanks Mr King for your work, this series has being amazing

[@anuj9315]

The calm but direct attack with g4, Rg1 reminded me of a game you covered previously where Kramnik on the black side of a Berlin played Rg8 followed by g5, g4 and won a beautiful game.

[@johnd0e25]

Great video series and congratulations on reaching 50k subscribers!

[@KrishnaKumar-np3tw]

"Calm about blasting through", ha ha! Such an entertaining series, loved it. Thank you.

[@sandystorey5711]

Thank you Mr King. I like Alpha Zero's sacrificial style; reminds me of coffee bar chess back in the days of Morphy and co. Simply awesome.

[@chrisiver8506]

Almost 50k ! You deserve it man

[@aleksandrailic8456]

Great commentary, Daniel. What I appreciate about your takes on chess games is how much good English you put into use while analyzing the games. For instance, the last straw that brakes the camel's back. Never heard that one before. Perhaps similar to the last drop that overfills the cup.

[@gurjassinghbatra5758]

*breaks

[@adamrubinson6875]

The calmness of 14. 0-0-0 really shocked me. White is a whole piece down! Surely Black has enough resources to defend? Incredible!

[@CP-jp8hh]

I don't think that's an extraordinary move. It was my first intention, as it is a standard approach when attacking in this manner.

[@adamrubinson6875]

economyboy you rarely see whole pieces being sacked in such a position. Normally it’s 1 or 2 pawns

[@CP-jp8hh]

@@adamrubinson6875 I would disagree. In my experience, an sacrifice on g7 is quite common to open lines, whatever it may cost. But if course, maybe we have different styles, so opinions about such a move may be different.

[@chrisiver8506]

agreed, a full piece is too much for most humans lol

[@Fluxion11]

@@chrisiver8506 I agree. You won't man GM that are willing to take a chance on a sacrifice like this in an important, classical game. Tal might be willing to make this move on a hunch that he can make it work.

[@bananaminge]

Love your work

[@PowerPlayChess]

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[@kenspencer9895]

Hmm . . . I am not sure I can learn to do slo-mo attacks like A-0 . . . Thanks, GM King!

[@yorick021]

We have seen A0's preferred defense against e4 was the Berlin. What was it's preferred system against d4? I am very curious.

[@ingoos]

Just tip of the ai iceberg. Historic. Never gets old. Even better: it's analysis & appreciation.

[@gavinjones861]

I desperately want to 'snaffle' a pawn too, haha :)

[@sarbasov]

Can AlphaZero be installed on my PC? And why don't chess games live translation web sites use it in their evaluations?

[@PowerPlayChess]

Deep Mind have no plans to make AlphaZero commercially available. They want to move on to other areas of research.

[@burt591]

+sarbasov As far as I can understand it can't be installed on a standard PC, it's a Neural Network, it runs on 4 TPUs (Tensor Processor Unit)

[@mrkhoi3]

You can't but there is an open source project called leela chess zero aimed to mimic the result, but the training take much longer time and would probably need another 1,2 years (I think) before the strength are comparable.

[@dannygjk]

Leela is already strong and plays in a similar style as Alpha Zero.

[@sarbasov]

@@mrkhoi3 can't we get a ready training set for Leela somewhere in the Internet?

[@fixpontt]

That's why Stockfish needs opening book, because its pieces stuck in starting position. Opening book can help to mobilize your pieces first. This game was lost probably after ~12 moves.

[@dannygjk]

AZ still destroyed SF when SF was using a book.

[@fixpontt]

@@dannygjk that's not the point , the point is, there is a pattern how S8 loses lots of games, and the pattern: stuck pices on back rank, usually a rook sometimes a knight

[@nilsp9426]

And there is this b7-Bc8-Nd7-e6 structure again in a black loss. Somehow this turns up every other Stockfish loss against A0. Are there countless examples of Stockfish holding firm with this structure or is it really that bad? I just searched for this structure in my (small outdated) Database. Maybe someone knows how to pull up the white/black score from a set of games in the database? However, from glancing over a couple of hundred results, to me it seems there are a lot of white wins, regardless of player strength. On an analysis level, I would guess that, as long this structure is maintained, white is free to attack and sacrifice, because black cannot connect his pieces. A0 acts so swiftly in this game, that Stockfish has no time for b6, Bb7, c5 and Nxc5, or other useful moves like that. At some point you kinda have to wonder if black would have rather ditched his Bc8 to get his Ra8 into play at some point. In the early middlegame, the Bc8 is just a roadblock.

[@tommonk7651]

Daniel, have I missed it? Are there any games where AlphaZero played black?

[@PowerPlayChess]

Please check out the AlphaZero playlist.

[@dannygjk]

It is standard practice for each opponent in a match to play white and black an equal number of times.

[@tommonk7651]

@@dannygjk Sure, but most of the games released are with AlphaZero as white. I've seen very few as black.

[@johnkom2339]

@@tommonk7651 Correct me if I'm wrong but Daniel did not cover the great game where AZ played the Leningrad Dutch. That game was analyzed by Matt Sadler, and is on KZbin.

[@tommonk7651]

@@johnkom2339 You could be right. I may have missed it. I'll look for it. Thanks.

[@chris_2208]

Nice game!

[@pawn4129]

I believe you have forgotten some games from this encounter.... There are some hunderd games left ;)

[@PowerPlayChess]

That's true :) But I think it's time to move on to other topics. I may return to AlphaZero in the future.

[@pawn4129]

@@PowerPlayChess We will be eagerly awaiting your analysis! What topics are you covering? The rapid and blitz championship?

[@carlos16alva]

I like the fact that we are not as impressed anymore with alpha zero winning. If this was played by any other engine it would be call " the x engine inmortal" but since is alpha zero we just go like "well that was easy lol" seriously Houdini's inmortal follows the same vain of attacking chess against stockfish and went it happened everybody was talking about it. Now stockfish is getting destroy over an over again and it looks like we can't keep up. I am glad, this is great!

[@lemoncake7565]

"Pretty miserable" hahaahaha!!