Chess AI Leela (RTX 4090-trained) crushes Grandmaster without a knight

Featured is a remarkable Rapid game between a specialized version of AI Leela Chess Zero and chess grandmaster Alex Lenderman. This version of Leela, LeelaKnightOdds-dev on lichess, was trained on Nvidia's powerful graphics card, an RTX 4090. LeelaKnightOdds-dev was specifically trained from a start position without a knight. It's a thing of beauty to see just how effortlessly Leela creates an environment where its queen is more free, embarrasses more than one of the enemy pieces, and launches a tsunami of pawns towards the grandmaster's king all while making sacrifices along the way. The game finishes with an aesthetic tactical sequence leading straight to mate. And one final note, Leela's moves only took on average 1.1 seconds!
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1. c4 e6 2. g4 d5 3. Bg2 dxc4 4. O-O Nc6 5. Nc3 Bd7 6. d4 cxd3 7. Qxd3 Nf6 8. g5 Nd5 9. Rd1 Bd6 10. Ne4 Qe7 11. Nxd6+ cxd6 12. e4 Nb6 13. a4 e5 14. a5 Nc8 15. Qb3 Be6 16. Qg3 Nd4 17. Rxd4 exd4 18. f4 f6 19. f5 Bc4 20. Bf4 O-O 21. h4 Kh8 22. Rd1 d3 23. Rc1 Bb5 24. g6 h6 25. Qe3 Bc6 26. Bxh6 gxh6 27. Qxh6+ Kg8 28. b4 a6 29. h5 Na7 30. Rc3 Rac8 31. Rxd3 Nb5 32. Rg3 Qg7 33. Qd2 Rfe8 34. Qa2+ Kh8 35. Qb2 Re5 36. Qc1 Rce8 37. h6 Qe7 38. Qc4 Rg8 39. g7+ Kh7 40. Qxg8+ Kxg8 41. h7+ Kxh7 42. g8=Q+ Kh6 43. Qg6

[@mnakai1]

There’s something so beautiful with how engines like leela play. Please show us more of leela!

[@RichardDynes-n4q]

I bet I'm not alone on this; I could watch a thousand Knight-Odds-Leela-vs-GM-games in one sitting- MANY Thanks 🙏😊🎉

[@user-gr3tg2yk6o-24_डफ़क]

No you cannot

[@MrSupernova111]

Oddly enough, no pun intended, this has to be one of the most beautiful games I've ever seen. Leela's straightforward aggression but positional precision is remarkable! First, Leela sets out to gain space and disrupt black's development. Second, many of Leela's moves were multi-purpose, and of course the exchange sacrifice to deflect black's pawn from the e-file was very beautiful. This game makes me question how much do we really know about chess when an engine can play such beautiful and dominating chess against a 2650 gm down a full knight from move one and proceed with such unusual moves. Thank you for the game Jerry! Cheers!

[@dkelly]

I, for one, welcome our new Leela overlord.

[@RO5H4N]

the one to success silicon overlord

[@FahimHoq]

I suppose Mikhail Tal's quote "Fisher is Fisher, but a knight is a knight" can now be extended to "However Leela is Leela"

[@willmunoz1638]

However, Chuck Norris is victorious.

[@jaymxu]

Who is Fisher? Has he caught some trout?

[@willmunoz1638]

@@jaymxu lol Fischer

[@jaymxu]

@@willmunoz1638 Yeah, thanks, Fischer meant too much for people to be writing his name like that, just doing it so people end up remembering how to write it in the future.

[@camilohiche4475]

Fischer is Fischer, but Maradona is God.

[@ajaxmajor]

leela makes chess look like a different game

[@simonphillips7704]

Less than 50 seconds for all moves? That's adding insult to injury.

[@jordannasenbeny5575]

Jerry is a legend. Top notch chess commentary for >decade. Thanks for the game

[@xevy3493]

What I find interesting is that Leela ended one knight down, just as she started.

[@jono5744]

Fascinating! I always enjoy your analysis of Leela games. As always, great job explaining everything.

[@schoolofvoiceovertrainingc6151]

Greatest lesson in Queen mobility I've ever seen.

[@Socrates...]

please show us more of these games

[@llgogo]

The way that Leela just storms down with every pawn and sacrifices a rook looks so beginner-like and yet so effective. Its poetry in motion!

[@-AxisA-]

Sometimes so happens to me that I make a move, then I think I messed up and I think it was an inaccuracy, mistake or blunder, but when I go analyze the game it was the best or excellent move:D Sometimes even a ! Good move and even more rearely though occasionally it's a !! brilliant move.

[@doesyourdogbite4799]

Nice vid Jerry! Greetings from Holland, Europe.

[@StephenHain1]

We've known engines are better than us for a while now... but occasionally they remind us how bad it is, and it's scary sometimes

[@marceltorretta]

I could follow your explanation very well! You did a great job!

[@ChessNetwork]

Great to hear 👍😎

[@stevenorth1564]

Thanks for posting Jerry!

[@joseraulcapablanca8564]

a wonderful odds game. Thanks Jerry.

[@D_Winds]

Love the AI Handicap vs. Master videos. Would like to see more!

[@willspencerpod]

Crushing performance by Leela. Scary intimidating to watch. Thanks Jerry.

[@ExplosiveBrohoof]

What's kind of astonishing is that despite all of the commentary, which convinced me that white had been winning or at least in a drawn position for the second half of the game, Stockfish says that black remained hovering at around -3 right up until the blunder on move 38. All things considered, Lenderman's defense was excellent.

[@etiennechaplais1764]

But at this point do you even trust stockfish 👽

[@anderslarsen4412]

​@@etiennechaplais1764 With more time to analyse the position? Sure, why not?

[@Elia__Holm]

Good one:) ​@@etiennechaplais1764

[@jonesbonesjon6031]

Of course. Depepnding on your hardware configuration, they're about equal, if not SF being stronger for engine play. ​@etiennechaplais1764

[@1888richi1]

​@@anderslarsen4412I think stockfish is biased because its evaluation of leela essentially works by comparing it with the moves stockfish would have played itself. So if leela and stockfish have a different style, then stockfish would rate leelas style worse than itself (at least over the course of the next few moves). Im not a chess engine dev tho, so take it with a grain of salt.

[@mr.nobody2515]

Incredible game by Leela, showing insane strength of the best engines compared to humans. There’s plenty of interesting games amongst the computers which would be interesting to see with your coverage!

[@poil32]

Next step: no queen-rook. I wonder how much time it would take Leela to figure out the blue chicken gambit.

[@DroppedBass]

it would figure it out pretty quickly as soon as that glitch is introduced to its training engine.

[@KF1]

That was awesome. Great effort by GM Lenderman, and amazing control by monster Leela

[@irfanyamashita7184]

Leela play like tal in modern way

[@JS-jk1qc]

Hi Jerry its everyone! A daily viewer of yours, have all watched all ur videos from the past, just one request please try to post more often

[@BlackPro2307]

Imagine playing an opponent that knows each of your next move and respond in a sec. It feels to me like a child playing against a grandmaster.

[@MoonBurn13]

You could almost hear Liela’s hardware clicking with surprise at how easy her moves were to make. Here she was, anticipating certain doom a Knight down against an opponent like herself! She threw the rule book right out the window at the start. Dazzling.

[@mopsnuf]

Love engine games! Impressive amount of (exchange) sacrifices in this one given Leela already starts on the back foot. Poetic indeed.

[@chessanalysis64]

Inspirtational game, AI chess programs probably will come up with breakthroughs in chess theory in the near future .. Many Thanks Jerry !!!

[@runl6117]

They have already been doing that since 2018

[@chessanalysis64]

@@runl6117 Thanks for your clarification 👍

[@consciousmassofatoms]

With the advent of quantum computing and the evolution of AI, I wonder how long until chess is solved

[@TruthHurtsFAFO]

I’d love to see Magnus play odds vs Leela

[@rnapol3266]

It is simply beautiful

[@irfanyamashita7184]

Leela really play like tal in modern way

[@FahimHoq]

and also Capablanca, the way Leela can make things looks simple with positional play.

[@ronj9448]

Has anyone played LIChess with Knight odds? I have at various levels and w/o the Knight Lichess uses the space to collect pieces in unique ways and really goes for the throat. I would define the play as "knowing it is losing and impatient to change that". Crazy fun. I'm OTB 1800 and that is my experience

[@ernestogarcillan1977]

Strong ai nice clear explanation, i learned a lot..

[@enijize1234]

Jerry you're the original ASMR imo

[@wokencs330]

absolutely gorgeous game

[@lorcster6694]

I love GM odds games vs computer. It always amazes me how skillful and indepth chess is, that a global top player can lose wity knight odds

[@Cuyut982]

Leela is honestly so awe-inducing to watch, every move is elegant perfection. People say human players are more interesting to watch but there's a lot to be said for Leela's ability to pierce through the latent space of possible moves and find wins with tactics a human mind simply could not identify.

[@irfanyamashita7184]

@@Cuyut982 yeah, leela and alphazero have many interesting game

[@vivvpprof]

When people say "human players are more interesting to watch" I like to think that that's because their games are more comprehensible for us. On the other hand, you don't learn by observing the likes of you.

[@irfanyamashita7184]

@@vivvpprof yeah , human idea is easier to follow

[@Coq7]

Masterpiece

[@Ireniicus]

Fantastic game.

[@bobtheblob888]

I wonder how far they can push this and see how many points an ai can be down and still beat gm players

[@CTFlink]

This was oddly scary

[@paulmafakane9881]

Pawn Play Technique

[@CharlesJaye-v1b]

Just an FYI, the GPU isn't a metric for training, a weaker GPU run for longer would have the exact same output Unless it's running live of course

[@JimEadon]

There is something terrifying about the strength of these AIs when they are in their comfort zone: an extremely narrow game, such as chess.

[@andrewnagi7765]

All hail our robot overlords. I hope they turn out friendly.

[@FohHoleOut]

GM trained on GTX 1070

[@Loots1]

lmao

[@spacegaiden]

i was thinking like an overclocked r9 380 or something

[@SpudNug69]

GM just needs to update his drivers and he'll be sound

[@snippletrap]

The hardware only makes training faster. Not better results.

[@Chex_Mex]

​​@@snippletrapoh I see, is Leela based on a neural network instead of your tradition alpha beta tree chess bot? In the latter case, performance does have an intrinsic tie to being better at the game because it can see more moves into the future. You're right if it's a neural network

[@DemetriosMPapadakes]

No knight but castling immediately might be the reason for this victory, because it essentially gives the engine a five move advantage in tempo, which is far more than a knight, especially in the beginning of the game when strategic structure is being established.

[@man_kind]

Brutal

[@Eisog]

Poetic how in the final position black is still up that one knight in material.

[@superfisto]

thanks

[@mayankgomeshwar2829]

Baby steps towards dangerous ai

[@tastenshruti]

To be honest, I think this is kind of scary.

[@anwealde]

just waiting for chess to be a completely solved game at some point where every game can be drawn with perfect play

[@arcterus9060]

AI I can get behind!

[@titanten7582]

Gm played like the uncles at the park

[@irfanyamashita7184]

Hello jerry,thanks

[@Ryanmuniverse]

We humans rly are limiting ourselves by the openings we play. The computer spits pawns forward at the start in strategic ways. We have to follow cut and dried openings to ensure a stable mid game. But it holds us back so much obviously.

[@vinzanity68]

AI always plays game of the century games😮

[@pierQRzt180]

For a while knight odds for engines were too much because they simplified the position quickly. Now with an ad hoc training it seems that the gap extended

[@hektik2074]

Playing against Leela is just seeing how long you can survive

[@giovannifrrri5495]

GPU isn't really important, CPU is

[@nuklearwinter2892]

Wild

[@Greatermaxim]

Time to invent your own game.

[@youuuuuuuuuuutube]

Seems like a5 should have been played. Queen can always go back do d8 to protect the knight. Anyway, I think that handicap games vs the strongest engines, especially Leela, is the future of human vs machine chess. I wonder until what handicap engines can beat humans in the future, certainly not a queen handicap, right? A rook handicap I think they can still win.

[@Waga20]

If Laela had to freeze and restart for updates Black would have had it

[@Ricardo7250]

Black should have played 1...e5. Would have been a much better opening in that situation rather than that passive ...e6

[@Nobody-df4is]

Man, It looks like the game could have been played by me with the black pieces.

[@bobanobahoba1642]

A monster

[@Tulio_Fonseca]

I'm a simple man. I see a Jerry new video, I click on it.

[@roydavis7561]

Hey Jerry.

[@quinnbartlett7233]

I think this Leela woman may be using an engine

[@dr.deepakgore1079]

Great game by machine against human🎉❤

[@John_NYT]

Absolutely disgusting play from Leela. It’s just not even fair.

[@acschneid]

Those opening moves by Leela must have been related to their position starting a knight down, but of course, it's way over my head. Would be interested in better players' thoughts. Incredible pawn aggression.

[@suyashmisra7406]

Ek paheli leela

[@Temessong]

I'd love to see Hikaru go against Leela tbh :D

[@PhilNEvo]

I wonder how "normal" Leela would do in this situation. Admittedly, it won't have the specialized training, but I assume it in general has way more training. It would be fun to see Leela knight odds vs Leela.

[@marcogiorgio5846]

Hi! The current LeelaKnightOdds bot uses the standard Leela, while the specialized network runs on LeelaKnightOdds-dev. While the standard Leela performs well in knight odds with the right settings, LeelaKnightOdds-dev is even stronger

[@sammer11069]

Computer vs human games are epic

[@NinjaSquirreI]

A grandmaster being given knight odds and being beaten? The trick is the time control. 15/10 is too fast for a human. Let's see Leela beat a GM at 40 moves in 2 1/2 hours while giving knight odds.

[@villbuzeep2043]

yes, people normally get to think some on opponent moves also, but that doesn't happen here, so it's almost like the time control is halved

[@DeuceGenius]

What's up jerry

[@ilyrm89]

I would love to see Magnus taking on this challenge. Would he draw or even win being a Knight up?

[@marcogiorgio5846]

Hi! I'm the person behind this project. While we believe top players are still favorite, the project is evolving rapidly. Stay tuned for a match against a stronger GM in the coming weeks!

[@-AxisA-]

This is like watching a Paul Morphy game from the Romantic era of chess, only with the chess knowledge and computing power of 2024😄 So basically Morphy/Tal/Nežmetdinov game on steroids. Though Morphy played against much lower rated players than him with a rook down and won many, if not all. I think the difference between this GM and Leela (Idk Leela's Fide rating if "she" even has one, but isn't her elo rating like 3700 to almost 3800?) So like 1000-1100 rated better than this guy (Well maybe his elo is higher than 2650 though, might alot more, which makes the gap difference a little bit smaller, if Leela's rating is it's Elo rating) and Morphy played with a rook down against even great players with only a couple of hundred ratings lowers, like max 500, but the toughest opponents he faced must have been like only 250-300 rating lower than Moprhy who played sometimes with a rook down against those top players not SO far behind him talent wise, as almost every other chess player was, when he played.

[@OnigoroshiZero]

We should be scared when AI models can beat the top players in StarCraft 1&2. Now that's a challenge that has not been achieved yet (and it's nowhere even close at this point).

[@rahimbazdarevic1359]

Stockfish or Leela??

[@Jartran72]

I saw SF 14 beat SF 9 with rook odds For a human we need a lot more than knight odds to keep up with top engines. Maybe kings rook + 1 center pawn and we see how it goes but I won't hold my breath.

[@draganandrei5356]

I'm pretty sure Stockfish would have sacrifice back some material to secure a winning endgame. But at the human level this is hard to do.

[@DrumFFx]

trade pieces or get trapped and blitzed

[@thomasscholler8625]

I am more afraid of AI then ever, what more to say?

[@willywonka6487]

the 4090 is no different from a gt 710 for training purposes. (equalized for time spent)

[@willywonka6487]

unfort tech bros seize on this kind of thing for their hype wagons

[@aleksandarknezevic6158]

What is next?!

[@bartman898]

Incredible game. Kind of sad in a way. The machine overlords are ...

[@jaybro3713]

computer is strong.

[@thenosa87]

More handicap AI vs human games!

[@user-gr3tg2yk6o-24_डफ़क]

The GM played like a noob 😂😂

[@jgarris0577]

Why did he let the queen stay in the middle unchallenged for so many moves

[@SerLaama]

Hey Jerry

[@MJR_ATX]

Slenderman is good at chess

[@blinkers88]

Imagine giving your life to a game only to get destroyed with knight odds. Brutal

[@SoutaN0101]

By an AI which has millions of games in its database and can do millions of math operations in seconds... Honestly, he did very well lasting this long in the game. Nothing to be ashamed of here!

[@blinkers88]

@@SoutaN0101 He did a great job. I'm just saying it's gotta feel demoralizing

[@OnigoroshiZero]

@@SoutaN0101 that's not how these AI models work, they don't brute-force the game at this point...