How AlphaZero Completely CRUSHED Stockfish

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AlphaZero, the chess computer/engine, versus Stockfish. I covered Magnus Carlsen learning from AlphaZero in a separate video. Also hi, you're amazing.
0:00 Intro
0:51 Game 1
8:45 Game 2
14:04 Game 3
24:04 Game 4
30:42 Final Thoughts
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[@genewest7271]

This is so stupid, AZ was playing with more than 2000 cores and stockfish was using a quad core cpu. Mismatch of the century! This man's voice is very grating, he should get a job of dispersing riots...

[@isaaccheung8827]

Pin of shame

[@UKEliteSquad]

PIN OF SHAME

[@lillianruan9801]

Pin of SHAME

[@norton9276]

Pin of SHAME

[@paulsmith2444]

sHaMe oF pIN

[@00modey9500]

alpha zero taught me that pawn are obstacles that need to be removed so my pieces can move freely now I have gone from 800 ranking to 600 ranking thx alpha zero

[@eitanchess]

You need to know what your doing first😂

[@ditshitsomohami6951]

😂😂🤣

[@soxton4612]

Eventually you'll be able to reach rank 1!

[@jasonscarlett]

Some here

[@Ikxi]

soon #1

[@demerzel3798]

Philidor: pawns are the soul of chess AlphaZero: pawns get in the way of my pieces

[@descendency]

Also AlphaZero: pawns get in the way of your pieces.

[@coreyeverett5500]

Chess beginners: Pawns get in the way of my pieces Chess masters: Good pawn structure is essential AlphaZero: Pawns get in the way of my pieces

[@pasqualesimonelli1513]

@@ericzhu6620 what?

[@kubasowa4592]

@@descendency underrated comment

[@Yeetbloxian]

you made a blunder in your grammar Alphazero: pawns get in the way of my pieces and pieces get in the way of my pawns, but I'll win anyways

[@suursuits7637]

AZ playing a retreating move before the attack is like loading a crossbow.

[@Gingnose]

Or loading guns especially Alekhine's

[@butixsecas]

*Me hanging a pawn* Stockfish: "Oh man, that's a blu-" Alphazero: "YEAH BRO, GREAT MOVE, KEEP PUSHING THIS MF" *Snorts cocain from the table*

[@Mike-we3rb]

I just imagined a guy with both hands on a table and smashes his face on a table just sniffing cocaine into his nose like a mf. Not even using a straw or dollar anything lol

[@butixsecas]

@@Mike-we3rb yeah, accurate 100%😂

[@PSS1312]

😂

[@reshzy3807]

Man this one got me, the image I got from this comment got me laughing for 5 minutes straight!

[@Marsh370]

Alphazero: AaaaaAAAAAAAA

[@thelastsamurai7163]

Robots have no emotions Stock fish:I have known fear...

[@blunderbus2695]

Stockfish: "I fear no man. But that thing..." *AlphaZero* "...it scares me."

[@Tortoisaurus]

First game: 1. Nf3 Nf6 2. c4 b6 3. d4 e6 4. g3 Ba6 5. Qc2 c5 6. d5 exd5 7. cxd5 Bb7 8. Bg2 Nxd5 9. O-O Nc6 10. Rd1 Be7 11. Qf5 Nf6 12. e4 g6 13. Qf4 O-O 14. e5 Nh5 15. Qg4 Re8 16. Nc3 Qb8 17. Nd5 Bf8 18. Bf4 Qc8 19. h3 Ne7 20. Ne3 Bc6 21. Rd6 Ng7 22. Rf6 Qb7 23. Bh6 Nd5 24. Nxd5 Bxd5 25. Rd1 Ne6 26. Bxf8 Rxf8 27. Qh4 Bc6 28. Qh6 Rae8 29. Rd6 Bxf3 30. Bxf3 Qa6 31. h4 Qa5 32. Rd1 c4 33. Rd5 Qe1+ 34. Kg2 c3 35. bxc3 Qxc3 36. h5 Re7 37. Bd1 Qe1 38. Bb3 Rd8 39. Rf3 Qe4 40. Qd2 Qg4 41. Bd1 Qe4 42. h6 Nc7 43. Rd6 Ne6 44. Bb3 Qxe5 45. Rd5 Qh8 46. Qb4 Nc5 47. Rxc5 bxc5 48. Qh4 Rde8 49. Rf6 Rf8 50. Qf4 a5 51. g4 d5 52. Bxd5 Rd7 53. Bc4 a4 54. g5 a3 55. Qf3 Rc7 56. Qxa3 Qxf6 57. gxf6 Rfc8 58. Qd3 Rf8 59. Qd6 Rfc8 60. a4 (Game may have continued) Kh8 61. a5 g5 62. a6 g4 63. Qe7 g3 64. a7 Rxe7 65. fxe7 f6 66. Bd5 gxf2 67. a8=Q Rxa8 68. Bxa8 f1=B+ 69. Kxf1 c4 70. e8=Q#

[@mark85gmballerbattleship39]

@@Tortoisaurus thx

[@Tortoisaurus]

@@mark85gmballerbattleship39 ok

[@oddpoppetesq.3467]

Stockfish should be renamed Marvin as im pretty sure its complete trouncing caused it to know depression 😒

[@Matoxina]

Anyone: Don't blunder AlphaZero: SAC A ROOK LET'S FUCKING GOOOOOOOO

[@toan--HoangVuGiaHuy]

lol ;D

[@pietandersen6120]

@@toan--HoangVuGiaHuy The most low-key response possible

[@poobman6]

It’s like alphazero is throwing for content and still winning

[@ppmpyae1152]

@@poobman6 Its easy to play like alphazero. 1. Feeds pawns. 2. Feed more pawns.

[@LFSPharaoh]

AlphaZero: *rails line of coke* AlphaZero: SAC TIME LFGGGG

[@cameronb8503]

For everyone out there who thinks they should attempt to emulate alpha zero or it's play/strategy, you're looking at a bird, and then jumping off a building to take flight

[@sebastiang7394]

And yet airplanes where inspired by watching hawks.

[@rudriot]

@@sebastiang7394 fr bro really forgot the existence of the indomitable human spirit 💀😂

[@williamtimonen6814]

@@sebastiang7394 Airplanes arent operated by people jumping off buildings.

[@wizard5552]

Works in 400s after i dropped to 400 emulating that style

[@cameronb8503]

@@huymai7951 Magnus is building a plane. You don't have the skills to do that, you're just jumping. The point of the analogy is that you're too dumb to utilize the knowledge of alpha zero

[@namensklauer]

"The way it understands piece formation is fascinating" Meanwhile AZ:" I have no idea what I'm doing, but moving this piece has worked before"

[@Gingnose]

Exactly! It's actually what is going on in NNUE They ground on experience not logic So AZs move looks more intuitive one

[@MrCrackheadst]

@@Gingnose if we get very philosophical one may argue logic is formed from experience.

[@Gingnose]

@@MrCrackheadst Quite interesting point! When we think about purest logic as a math, fundamental mathematical theories (e.g. Principia Mathematica) seem to have no room for assumption other than axiom. And the axiom is the only thing that can we assume but as seeing math working surprisingly well in this universe, at least there should be a logic which comes before experience, in other word "a priori" knowledge. But if we think about the other universe, I have no slightest idea what logic will be like lol Talking about these chess machines, what was unique about AZ was there was no input at first other than win = 1, lose = 0, still abled to be the strongest chess machine at that time. And AZ played very intuitively imo, it looked like a creative human player than any other chess machines, this i think partially suggest that experience is very useful in terms of your reduction of calculation. If humans were 100% calculation logic based animals, we might got extinct because each time we faced the complex situation, the brain stops and need to calculate lol. So, experience is the shortcutting method of the otherwise lengthy calculation, and extrapolating the solution based on previous experience. AZ only needed experience (win or lose input) to derive the winning strategy/ tactics to beat the stockfish. But after stockfish using the same architecture of NNUE grounded on the previous data, there was no competition for AZ to hold the crown.

[@Ikxi]

@@Gingnose Thank you.

[@IronicHavoc]

"Understanding" is kind of used metaphorically here.

[@Chadwinw]

Chess Grandmasters: It is very important to have a safe King Alpha Zero: King devlopment

[@void717]

When some random nerd does king development you just think the nerd is dumb But if alphazero does it, it is literally going to take your soul

[@joakinfrati7867]

King goes brrr

[@bradting5078]

my man alpha zero is slowly , but surely evolving towards bongcloud *boss music starts playing*

[@andrewwwthebest]

The king goes skrrrrra

[@manictiger]

Hikaru: You shouldn't move these three pawns unless you absolutely have to. Me: [Gets backrank mated over and over again.] Gotham: Alpha Zero likes to let the king breathe. Me: [Rating jumps from 1200 to 1400 because I'm not getting backrank mated anymore.]

[@davidslg9986]

Stockfish: I will go ahead and move my first pawn AlphaZero: *This was your first mistake, and the game is already over for you*

[@kemcolian2001]

nice reference

[@MingChilling-]

i have found out this comment section is solid gold

[@jaimeivantamayo]

@@kemcolian2001 It is a reference to what?

[@d33763]

This is exactly how a future war with AI will look like, except we are no where as strong as Stockfish.

[@suntzu2508]

alphazero: “that was your second mistake! your first mistake was of course challenging me in the first place

[@MrStreaty122]

Damn… AlphaZero is like… that guy who is so cocky that you think it’s an act, but in actuality he’s cocky because he knows he is undoubtedly better

[@oskain]

me

[@zageous]

@@oskain 😱😱

[@smartwhip.]

@@oskain you fr

[@degdeg227]

@@oskain has to be u bro 💯💯💯💯💯💯💯

[@Joaow81]

Undoubtedly confident

[@starcasm3133]

400's: "Pawns get in the way of my pieces!" GMs: "Pawn structure is essential!!" AlphaZero: "Pawns get in the way of my pieces."

[@MIDO44444]

400s are secretly superior

[@dam-ib9fs]

xD

[@garybuttherissilent5896]

We've come full circle

[@leonidtimofeev1178]

Nah, in the first two games pawns were absolutely necessary for the total blocade of Black pieces. If Nimtzovicz was alive he would've died of excessive ejaculation.

[@someguy344]

@@leonidtimofeev1178 400's: "Pawns get in the way of my pieces!" GMs: "Pawn structure is essential!!" AlphaZero: "Pawns get in the way of your pieces."

[@nopartylifetime4798]

Alphazero: *loses 4 pawn* Also Alphazero: "oh, I'm completly winning now"

[@cinegraphics]

But what impresses me is that Stockfish doesn't lose its cool. I've never seen Stockfish kicking the table or throwing pieces after losing a match.

[@bc_7644]

@@cinegraphics that would've been awesome to see

[@jeesdetriplek4588]

Sounds like GM Hikaru.

[@JR-White]

Å: oh yeah, it's all coming together.

[@alibaabaa2455]

kzbin.info/door/-ex3ieZJ0T52aFAMNgb4gQvideos

[@GetOverHer3]

Stockfish: plays the first move in the French Defense AlphaZero: hmm looks like I'm completely winning already

[@manolgeorgiev9664]

Sounds like Germany

[@dekippiesip]

Just go through the Ardennes 👌

[@hitherez_2925]

@@dekippiesip ggez

[@akshajmallik3748]

Just make Vichy France and .be invaded by the allies

[@panosmax2867]

best response

[@runic3063]

*Alpha Zero is a 3400 rated player with the spirit of a 400 player*

[@czeianamiguel5543]

XD

[@Oh7.]

XD

[@bristlethistle7456]

XD

[@prenaviousiscto5202]

XD

[@mrfox5353]

XD

[@samuelyang8458]

Stockfish: A pawn is worth one point AlphaZero: A pawn is worth negative one point

[@drondasgupta9378]

Stockfish with +4 material: "You are surrounded!" AlphaZero: "All I am surrounded by is fear. And dead men."

[@Jeffrey_Tyler]

Is that an og quote or is it from something? It's badass.

[@drondasgupta9378]

@@Jeffrey_Tyler It's from a Star Wars comic, said by none other than Darth Vader.

[@Jeffrey_Tyler]

@@drondasgupta9378 That's crazy. Star Wars is my all time favorite series. I've read every canon book and I'd imagine at least half of the "Legacy" books. But the only comics I've ventured into is Dr Aphra. I think it's time to redownload Marvel Unlimited and start reading more SW comics.

[@auronyochowdhury7514]

i am batman

[@zacuddin3821]

​@@Jeffrey_Tyler *shields from nerd emoji comments*

[@harshsingh8619]

Alternative title : When you lose playing best engine moves...

[@michaelrhodes258]

If you lost were they the best moves?

[@DylanUchiha]

@@michaelrhodes258 if your opponent is god then yes

[@UOUPv2]

@@michaelrhodes258 "It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not weakness. That is life."

[@fabiandaja6137]

@@michaelrhodes258 he said the best ENGINE moves

[@alibaabaa2455]

kzbin.info/door/-ex3ieZJ0T52aFAMNgb4gQvideos

[@Tepalus]

"It loves material sacrifice" All fun and games until they implement AlphaZero in the military. 100 Soldiers and the enemy has 99 rounds? I see this as an absolute win.

[@IshraqIk00]

Oh my word...🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@gorkemaykut5230]

Soviet Russia enters the chat

[@alfonsomena9349]

50 soldiers on each side

[@thomasmount3530]

This comment made my week lol!

[@baconsauce6364]

@@gorkemaykut5230 Modern day Russia enters the chat.

[@_xxmidnight5351]

AlphaZero feels like an enhanced 400 rated player. Like the most basic weapon in the game upgraded to max stats + enchantments.

[@sebastian-benedictflore]

​@@numeric9834you are somehow both right

[@snivydream]

I play hypixel skybolck and maxed aotj isn't scary

[@_xxmidnight5351]

@@snivydream not yet

[@snivydream]

@@_xxmidnight5351 I don't think it will reach the highs that it on e reached

[@Hypostasy]

@@snivydream wdym, it the best sword

[@redteddy135]

Everything changed when AlphaZero attacked

[@crabruler1590]

*Salutes*

[@rohankrishna5786]

Only GothamChess master of all positions could stop it

[@polat7795]

@@rohankrishna5786 when the chess community needed him most he vanished

[@ethanolhaines4139]

This is so perfect, I don't wanna ruin anything

[@chef2397]

the joke here is that its kinda like avatar, not funny 😐 ( joke)

[@PolrisTired]

Stockfish: Sophisticated, calm, classical Alpha Zero: *hmm yes delayed bongcloud gives me 120% chance of victory*

[@bc_7644]

To be fair even stockfish understood the power of the delayed bongcloud, as it recommended capturing with the king

[@shivamreddy102]

did u catch the game last night?

[@arpita1shrivas]

did u catch the game last year?

[@allysson_]

did u catch the game last decade?

[@PolrisTired]

@@allysson_ I appreciate the originality, but chances are I still likely didn't haha

[@Dusk-MTG]

If you look at AlphaZero's moves one at a time they look very strange, but when you see the whole picture you understand that this is really how chess is meant to be played (if you have enough computational power to actually do it). And honestly it's also much more entertaining.

[@AF-mv8hq]

Stockfish calculates 60 million moves per second, alphazero calculates 60 thousand moves per second, ai is insane

[@merzeporgoher]

@@AF-mv8hq so stockfish had a higher calculation ability ?!

[@NeonPup-qo1cf]

@@merzeporgoher both stockfish and alphazero simulate possible moves. AlphaZero just picked the smarter moves.

[@wickedtorpedo75]

​@@merzeporgoher yes, but it's not mean higher quality of calculation, which in AlphaZero better

[@thebcwonder4850]

@@merzeporgoher yeah but alphazero is better at evaluating positions. Even now Stockfish isn't the best at evaluation, but it's still on top through raw calculation power.

[@danielonasanya5777]

Game starts Stockfish: best move is e4 or knight f3 Alphazero: Mate in 100 😁

[@rohangeorge712]

add another two 0s

[@upenditv731]

Around 7 minutes Levi is straight up commentating like a sports caster, it's glorious

[@StandaNovak]

I enjoyed StarCraft commentaries just because of that :)

[@NeostormXLMAX]

@@StandaNovak alpha zero also plays starcraft funny enough

[@StandaNovak]

@@NeostormXLMAX yup, watched the matches with Serral live :-)

[@Tortoisaurus]

First game: 1. Nf3 Nf6 2. c4 b6 3. d4 e6 4. g3 Ba6 5. Qc2 c5 6. d5 exd5 7. cxd5 Bb7 8. Bg2 Nxd5 9. O-O Nc6 10. Rd1 Be7 11. Qf5 Nf6 12. e4 g6 13. Qf4 O-O 14. e5 Nh5 15. Qg4 Re8 16. Nc3 Qb8 17. Nd5 Bf8 18. Bf4 Qc8 19. h3 Ne7 20. Ne3 Bc6 21. Rd6 Ng7 22. Rf6 Qb7 23. Bh6 Nd5 24. Nxd5 Bxd5 25. Rd1 Ne6 26. Bxf8 Rxf8 27. Qh4 Bc6 28. Qh6 Rae8 29. Rd6 Bxf3 30. Bxf3 Qa6 31. h4 Qa5 32. Rd1 c4 33. Rd5 Qe1+ 34. Kg2 c3 35. bxc3 Qxc3 36. h5 Re7 37. Bd1 Qe1 38. Bb3 Rd8 39. Rf3 Qe4 40. Qd2 Qg4 41. Bd1 Qe4 42. h6 Nc7 43. Rd6 Ne6 44. Bb3 Qxe5 45. Rd5 Qh8 46. Qb4 Nc5 47. Rxc5 bxc5 48. Qh4 Rde8 49. Rf6 Rf8 50. Qf4 a5 51. g4 d5 52. Bxd5 Rd7 53. Bc4 a4 54. g5 a3 55. Qf3 Rc7 56. Qxa3 Qxf6 57. gxf6 Rfc8 58. Qd3 Rf8 59. Qd6 Rfc8 60. a4 (Game may have continued) Kh8 61. a5 g5 62. a6 g4 63. Qe7 g3 64. a7 Rxe7 65. fxe7 f6 66. Bd5 gxf2 67. a8=Q Rxa8 68. Bxa8 f1=B+ 69. Kxf1 c4 70. e8=Q#

[@JDhomieG]

Me after realizing how it slowly locked in the queen: "Holy shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii"

[@jaredjenkins99]

It literally built a cage and then many moves later put the Queen in it. So savage

[@mukhitnassyrov3201]

Rook to c8 was kinda weird from stockfish

[@oddpoppetesq.3467]

@@jaredjenkins99 That was the gnarliest set up to trap the king AND queen in a cage ive ever watched!!

[@KancerKowboy]

Yes that was terrifying to watch . . . :-O

[@cinegraphics]

And that's how you get classy girls. Slowly...

[@DerZeppterdesAldi]

"Have you ever seen a queen in jail? Well maybe in some other countrys." Gold commedy. Learning Chess and laughing can it get any better? You are the best chess streamer keep it up.

[@keshavjha8354]

Samay Raina : Hold my beer !

[@oleg4209]

"it's all about suppression" - Gothamchess

[@scifino1]

Marie Antoinette before she was executed?

[@rheawelsh4142]

Stockfish is an AI trained with people and chess theory as a base, AZ just feels like it's completely brute forced the concept of chess as a game

[@kermittfroggy2975]

That's how it was, made. It learnt by playing thousand of games against itself

[@5gallonsofwater495]

@@chrisdawson1776 🤡

[@Jpturlax01]

@@chrisdawson1776 🤓🤡 or is it 🤡🤓 either way 🤡🤡

[@krishnachoubey8648]

@@chrisdawson1776 🤡🤡

[@dwightd.eisenhower2031]

@@krishnachoubey8648 🤓

[@isaakvandaalen3899]

Playing against AlphaZero must be like those dreams where you're running as fast as you can but don't go anywhere, all the time this really slow monster is just laughing and walking up behind you.

[@knockkek9808]

WTFFF, I have these kind of dreams all the time, didnt know it was a common thing?!?

[@isaakvandaalen3899]

@@knockkek9808 If I were into dream therapy I'd tell you that this probably means you have something in your life that you feel nervous / stressed about, and you can't find a way to solve it. But I'm not into dream therapy, and basically everybody has something like that.

[@czeianamiguel5543]

@@isaakvandaalen3899 This just made me to study dreams.

[@NomoregoodnamesD8]

Stockfish: Makes a logical move AlphaZero: Unfortunately for you, I'm having a very bad day.

[@cinegraphics]

AlphaZero: "I reject your reality and substitute my own."

[@rianharrington1505]

@@cinegraphics dungeon master! Nice!

[@kyro8581]

@@rianharrington1505 what? no... mythbusters

[@Skeleton-bs7zy]

@@kyro8581 what no

[@fusettimatteo]

I am so happy to see a saoa reference here :')

[@ga6257]

Alpha 0 taught me that It is OK to sacrifice random pieces and when they take just switch the side of the board I'm attacking

[@prdoyle]

21:15 - I literally got chills at this part. Your storytelling is next level. It's a bunch of chess pieces on a board, yet somehow I'm afraid for my life right now.

[@Marsh370]

Yeah 0~0'''

[@whannabi]

@@Marsh370 who are you warrior?

[@blitzbreaker]

bro same

[@warpdrive9229]

It's only a matter of time until someone puts Alpha Zero or even more powerful AI in the Military.

[@justvince4158]

"have you ever seen a queen in jail!?" Love the enthusiasm

[@adasaja157]

Maybe in another country 😂

[@happycreeperlol5235]

france lol

[@ivodevries123]

anne boleyn?

[@QuickQuips]

GM Maurice Ashley has a similar infectious attitude in his commentary.

[@scottwarren4998]

where does he say that?

[@Jarringcar]

Alpha zero taking the knight with the king instead of queen is just savage.

[@amol9750]

you just lose a queen after Bb4 pinning the queen against the king so its either king takes or knight takes

[@fatboi1283]

nice profile pic

[@marinhosantos1929]

5:53 move. Why didn't the queen take the A2 pawn?

[@riverdoge]

@@marinhosantos1929 Because of Pawn to h5

[@christiconegaming8184]

You would lose the queen after Bb4, but it could've taken with the knight

[@trungkien4187]

Alpha zero is literally my dream playstyle. Extremely aggressive, giving your opponent zero break. But i know even if i get to 2000 elo i will be absolutely destroy if i play like it

[@lol-em6bj]

my dream playstyle is slowly taking all the pieces, lifelines, moves until they admit defeat

[@alphanow4199]

its a basic overflow problem: if you do a very lot of blunders, its transform into an excellent position

[@tharteon1866]

I actually laughed so hard when alpha zero bong clouded the king LMFAO

[@jaitelyaditya03]

Timestamp??

[@pradyumnkejriwal3007]

When?

[@Outcastsage9033]

@@jaitelyaditya03 10:30

[@Noname-67]

10:33 I think

[@thomassebastian875]

10:33- 10:40

[@Imagineation]

"beep beep bop shut up Gotham" ~AlphaZero 2021

[@thomaskonatu6488]

Based

[@chriswiles87]

AlphaZero was not running on a supercomputer; it was trained using 5,000 tensor processing units (TPUs), but only ran on four TPUs and a 44-core CPU in its matches.

[@TariqHasanAnjan]

44 cores is still way high

[@masr8875]

"They've got us surrounded again, the poor bastards!" - AlphaZero

[@forbiddenlies1938]

Isn't it insane that even stockfish seems more "human" compared to alphazero?

[@MrCheerios2011]

I wouldn't say it seems more 'human' but it definitely is more comprehensible, ie we can understand the way it works. But the way Stockfish works is further away from how the human mind works than Alphazero.

[@forbiddenlies1938]

@@MrCheerios2011 The way I mean is, for example when alphazero sacrifices pawns stockfish seems to always take them. The way it values material advantage seems more human, we don't see stockfish sacking pawns left and right, just the way most humans don't.

[@MrCheerios2011]

@@forbiddenlies1938 Yes but Stockfish still makes many moves that are not human at all. It's just that Alphazero is able to see the long term positional advantages and therefore evaluates the position differently.

[@forbiddenlies1938]

@@MrCheerios2011 I never said stockfish seems human, it seems more human compared to alphazero. Of course it makes moves we do not understand.

[@senteish]

Stockfish is more more human because people taught it to play. It learned from human games and we taught it how to evaluate the situation. AlphaZero learned just by playing against itself.

[@AyrtonotryA]

"Oh, you're offering an exchange? (...) Yeah, no, f4 actually. You suck, you can't move." Goddamn AlphaZero is complete Chad. Lets have an anime version of this with levy's lines. Would be amazing.

[@jkraemo]

They should give the engines additional neuronal networks to shit talk each other, fueled by dialogue data from levy. That would make chess engine matches so entertaining hahaha

[@imjustspeakingfacts4209]

Alphazero casually developing his king 💀

[@bretthiguera8360]

Here are the Levy highlights: 3:57 AB-SO-LUTE SAVAGE 5:49 This is where he clearly starts to go insane. Man, that's early. 7:36 Levy has to doubletake on this nonsense. 8:16 "HAVE YOU EVER SEEN A QUEEN IN JAIL?!" 10:27 Oh no, Levy's been broken... 11:10 Oh, right, Levy is an IM. 11:24 That's straight-up computer bigotry. 18:38 Levy takes this one personally. 19:12 It hurts his soul. 20:34 Am I a game to you, AlphaZero? 22:01 "Are you ever gonna be able to push any of your... FOUR EXTRA PAWNS, BOZO?!" 22:14 30 seconds of pure disrespect 25:28 And another 40 seconds of disrespect. Honestly, Levy is just so fun to watch trash talking computers.

[@ShreyAeroSpace]

Fun fact : When you play like alpha zero, you find all of your moves as blunders because Stockfish is jealous of alpha zero.

[@mistertapman]

"Somebody should report AlphaZero for cheating." I agree, it's pretty obvious they're using an engine.

[@lillie3029]

Nice

[@nomdeplume9590]

I'm fairly sure that Alphazero isn't an engine in the conventional sense of the word, as it doesn't brute force. So... maybe it counts, but maybe not.

[@max-mg7gk]

I know AlphaZero ia a big cheater

[@neko6803]

@@nomdeplume9590 it's still an engine, just not in the classical sensd

[@neko6803]

@@nomdeplume9590 to be scientifically correct, it is a Machine Learning Algorithm, as it gets better the longer you give it time to learn. But it still works like an engine, as it still looks at a given position and then calculates - based on potential later threats and changes - how good or bad the position is for either side

[@oliver-nation4377]

Would love to see AlphaZero beat the crap out of cheaters or pros.

[@flameflame6128]

I think you can find games of alpha zero against other professionals. I’m not too sure but I know you can find some games between Magnus and very strong chess engines

[@killmine1235]

Wouldn't that just be like launching all of earth's nukes at like a bug?

[@Aquaplayer-yb1sz]

@@killmine1235 I mean alpha makes it so that his chances are the same as a cockroach surviving a nuke apocalypse.

[@GoonaTVhi]

AlphaZero: "I'm not locked in here with you, you're locked in here with me!"

[@robbieg6036]

When AlphaZero sends a copy of itself back in time to kill Stockfish's creator I'll be impressed

[@lillie3029]

When?

[@studd1815]

@@lillie3029 lmao

[@ibbybibby]

@@lillie3029 Judgement day.

[@JasonColdham]

There's no fate but what we make...

[@impolitedirector3595]

@@lillie3029 You know it's gonna happen. Just a matter of time.

[@pavlestojanovic270]

22:05 Levy has ascended to a level of calling stockfish a bozo

[@SyenPie]

I never fully watch videos longer than 15min and will always skip around or play on 2x speed, but for this 30 minute video I watched the whole thing straight. What I love about Levy is he covers and explains games/moves in such an accessible and entertaining manner, where even 800 newbies like me can actually learn and enjoy.

[@turul9392]

The queen lock-in is something from another dimension. Absolutely baffling, brutal and ruthless. This game is a gem.

[@hockeyninaj11]

*AlphaZero plays any move* Levy: ALPHAZERO JUST LOVES DOMINATING ITS OPPONENT

[@amadeus3506]

@Black Swan55 Just because it was beaten doesn’t mean it’s not strong. Plus, I bet it would absolutely obliterate you if you had played a game with it lmao

[@avaanoliah2984]

@@amadeus3506 I think we would all lose to Alpha Zero, I can't even beat stockfish.

[@JD-jc5hg]

@@avaanoliah2984 Drawing stock fish is already a feat

[@CuttleFishThatLoveDiving]

@Black Swan55 because the engine don’t have time to calculate and he is using a shit processor idiot

[@aluminiumknight4038]

@Black Swan55 "speed chess master" so he's shit at classical huh

[@SWARM_777]

"sacrifice material to damage your soul" got me rolling 😂😂😂

[@nostrum7278]

and when he says stuff like “ i will take, i will take again, and you *die* “

[@pedroivog.s.6870]

"I don't just take your king, I take your soul!"

[@RsGenjil]

This might be my favourite Gothamchess video of all time, commentary is sublime and pure gold

[@justin_pi]

I keep on coming back

[@Pintkonan]

Actually if you skim through various chess channels,you can find they are more or less all sublime in their commentary. We all know what kind of a monster stockfish actually is, so if there was someone to come along that would probably lay that stinky little fish over its knee and paddle his cheeks for a bit... man that would be some kind of quite fascinating ^^

[@Ally5141]

It looks to me like AlphaZero is using literal military tactics to win these, defeat in detail, anvil and hammer. Pinning down superior enemy forces with a small part of its own forces so it can go around and smash the enemy in some other place. Also restricting opponents movements and opportunities. This is literally how a small modern army would deal with a bigger older army.

[@maalikserebryakov]

Sounds very immoral

[@DeepakKumar-kh6ry]

I mean chess was originally invented in India for preparing better military tactical plans

[@Dragoon45]

Your pawns get in the way of your other pieces, Give them all away

[@oldaccount1254]

funny to see you here

[@justarandomguy9888]

nice to see you, minecraft chess when?

[@ninja8flash742]

good to see you

[@derontanzil6939]

Lmao

[@SDfighter1]

Play sea of thieves again.

[@AugmentedMartini]

What strikes me is how Alpha focuses on restricting its opponent's movements - and then has patience before attacking.

[@Gingnose]

AZ is also called python because of their slow torture

[@thelazyguy3735]

For a second I thought it's programming joke about how Python is slow

[@Sparky579]

So it is better than some humans

[@d33763]

"Alpha zero annihilated the French defense" Germans: Yeah, you just go around them.

[@Mike-we3rb]

It’s like a kitten with killing a mouse. They pat them around playing with it and wound it very slowly then just rip it apart lol

[@basaramstefan3098]

13:13 Well when AlphaZero saw the French Defence it got inspired by two major events in history and went *around* it. Like the germans went around the maginot line.

[@carboncompounds9377]

They didn't?

[@nvrecko]

👀

[@tonylee1667]

@@carboncompounds9377 they went through the Ardennes

[@pravinmirashi1046]

The way levy described moves of alphazero I'm literally scared of alphazero even though it's a machine and it's just chess game

[@dragon-bm9mv]

Well you should coz az has determined all of those moves he probably already determined the way you will before you parents have been born

[@Canalbiruta]

I got scared even without the description. If stockfish feels like a super smart could guy, alpha zero truly plays like a snake, just lurking and doing things that don't make sense, and when you realize, you're already trapped. That bishop d3 in the third game was so scary, cuz i firstly went "what the fuck? Why" and feel moves later stockfish was already fucked because of the light bishop position.

[@chadbroski]

alpha zero: *sacs 700 pieces of material" stockfish: " why you bully me"

[@srbhatia703]

No replies

[@kirbyknifeman2877]

@@srbhatia703 lies and deceit

[@johnfife4370]

Getting levy to 1 million is worth more than a queen! So let’s do it.

[@user-eg7xe7px4q]

For him, worth more than a King.

[@DivinePlant]

I wonder if he’ll beat Hikaru

[@praneelgogoi7769]

@@DivinePlant nah he won't Hikaru is at 990k already so. id like if levy got there first tho.

[@luckylaniang5574]

@@praneelgogoi7769 maybe he will beat him long term

[@alkavonstra5479]

Hikaru's basically already at 1 mill, but Levy's channel is growing much faster. In a couple weeks Levy will surpass him, but not until after 1 mill. Sadge

[@Incepter.]

Well, AlphaZero just has a better name than Stockfish so that's probably how AlphaZero crushed that fish.

[@webeewaboo]

AlphaZero is quite literally the Ultra Instinct of chess.

[@blackvvitcher]

8:16 "HAVE U EVER SEEN A QUEEN IN JAIL?!" "Idk Maybe in some countries.." 😂😂😂

[@sadas3190]

1400s: pawns are not that important 2400s: pawn structure defines middle game and end game strategy and great care must be taken to ensure that we do not leave weaknesses 3400s: pawns are not that important

[@abdurrahmannocomment7269]

There is a meme using this joke

[@Galoric]

400's: pawns get in the way of my pieces!

[@googane7755]

Does 900 elo players were right after all

[@ujjwal2473]

​@@Galoric 😂😂 i laughed out loud

[@algebraicgamer4522]

GMs: Castle your king AlphaZero: Plays Hyper Bongcloud

[@pauls5745]

amazing how it seems Alphazero pointedly plays for choking off the opp's activity, enhancing it's own rather than burying tactics deep in unclear lines with chances on either side. very original way of cyberplay

[@troycongdon]

I like that we have taught machines to learn so that we can try to learn what they discover. So many moves that even you as a strong player don’t necessarily understand and yet as you pick them apart you start to gain insight into a game you already know so well. Thank you for sharing on a level that is educational without being intimidating.

[@brm3175]

All of this and still the are people who still think that we don't land on the moon

[@user-sicparvis]

@@brm3175 how is that related

[@brm3175]

@@user-sicparvis well some people created machines able to learn and you can say that u gotta be smart to do something like that but then people still think we faked the moon landing... Humanity is stupid overall

[@chimp9465]

@@brm3175 is English your first language?

[@alibaabaa2455]

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[@HarishKini]

Low elo player: recklessly loses pawns AlphaZero: reckfully loses pawns

[@rhatchko]

you stole this comment

[@praba50shiv11]

Yeah he stole it

[@priyamadhikary]

No he stole it

[@sangeetsharma-vidiaries89]

You fuckin stole it

[@cinegraphics]

He captured the comment

[@danielandrade483]

I love how you could program these two engines to play a gazillion games against each other and they’d all probably be interesting.

[@snowwons9987]

stockfish 15.1: dont worry lil bro, got yo back.

[@blushingbutterfly7742]

The coolest thing about AlphaZero is that it plays the romantic era perfectly. It plays like it's really orchestrating a war.

[@hienable6933]

What the heck is the romantic era?

[@blushingbutterfly7742]

@@hienable6933 during the romantic era of chess, it didn't matter how dogshit your move was, all that mattered was the intention behind it. Getting your queen out early without backup is bad, but, it was a sign from you preparing to launch an invasion.

[@hienable6933]

@@blushingbutterfly7742 woah that's cool

[@Opanker_]

Alphazero is Napoleon confirmed

[@napoleoncorneliusscipio5141]

@@Opanker_ it'd be actually interesting if AlphaZero deploys the Napoleon attack. I tried it before, it's an okay beginner move.

[@otwcollection]

“You’re not alpha zero at all, you’re a bozo who submitted their game to my guess the ELO series.” LMAOO I’M DEAD 😂

[@alibaabaa2455]

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[@tyto125]

22:00 FOUR EXTRA PAWNS BOZO

[@oscararias6052]

I'd love to see you analyze some of the 6 games stockfish won

[@andymenke]

I bet Google hasn't released those ones, they're studying them the hardest

[@itsQP]

Levy be uploading content faster than we can watch it

[@zikangjiang1815]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/i4mpgIClac6agpo so true

[@matteokoshi4065]

Ahaha yes

[@yourstruly33]

His subscriber count is approx. increasing @6k per day so why not!

[@supersquare04]

"a small price to pay for salvation"

[@Yeetbloxian]

we all know it and we all love it

[@JoanRaba21]

"I didn't ask AlphaZero it would've gone **Beep Beep Boop Shut Up Gotham**" LMAO

[@shiralea]

timestamp?

[@Greyhoundclash]

@@shiralea 21:02

[@TheMg49]

This was great to watch and try to understand. Really enjoyed your commentary. Will be watching this again, probably more than a few times. Also am motivated to check out more of these AlphaZero and Stockfish games, and computer vs computer in general.

[@aaryananand7288]

I wanna see AlphaZero vs Torch and Mittens

[@ismaeelmahmood7259]

I love how alpha plays. Its plays with so much flare, sacrificing pieces like its nothing, increasing its mobility while imprisoning its opponent aswell as regularly throwing in elegantly savage moves. Imo its the most beautiful play style that has ever existed.

[@ColdSleep]

Watch all 200 of those games and come back and tell me it's beautiful lmao. The vast majority of its play is laboriously shuffling pieces for miniscule advantage. Levy just spared us the pain of watching that stuff.

[@hexrin5191]

The straight up ridiculous amount of subtleties in it's slow improvements is still really beautiful though it does get admittedly boring when you can't understand any of it.

[@SundaeGolf]

700 Friend- *plays KB1, KB2* Me- “He has no clue what he’s doing” AZ- *plays KB1, KB2* Me- *Worried Laughter*

[@s.mojtabatabatabaei1002]

Chuckles... I'm in danger

[@gizel4376]

he hide his King from my bishop who can do nothing because of all my white square pawn... ooooh! those pawn are gonna disappear

[@dougallwinship]

cheers dude ... it's fascinating to hear your human interpretations of the seemly crazy strategies well trained neural networks (etc ... obvs it's more) can come up with in practice ... the well placed, seemingly reckless, sacrifices in particular seem like something us humans can learn from!

[@SyenPie]

17:46 "It's like the person in the movie with the gun on their forehead, and they press their head into the gun like "yeah lets go, shoot it!" LMAO wow Levy found the most perfect analogy to convey the absolute savagery of AlphaZero...

[@tpfrecoil2837]

Low Elo: Recklessly pushing pawns and losing pieces is great! Grandmasters: Recklessly pushing pawns and losing pieces is awful. AlphaZero: Recklessly pushing pawns and losing pieces is great!

[@oneonly2762]

Normal distribution meme in text form. Love it.

[@uwunoob3699]

return to monke

[@user-eg7xe7px4q]

Alphazero has got the spirit of a beginner and the mastery of a super GM

[@sakshamsinghal5418]

So a low elo player is as good as alpha zero

[@oneonly2762]

@@sakshamsinghal5418 It's more likely to think that alpha zero is just the greatest low ELO player ever.

[@zooperl192]

Levy: Alphazero can sacrifice material to take your soul Me: Bluntly gives away material to save my soul

[@aren6]

26:45 "Where are we gonna put the bishops?" 'Of course! In the square hole'

[@bluote392]

Normal players like me: knight on rim is dim, More the material, better chances of winning Alphazero: These things are for mortals, not for gods.

[@brawldude2656]

I love how he gives emotions to chess so game gets more dramatic and impressive.

[@Vengaard]

AlphaZero: *plays a move* Levy: 'AlphaZero LOOOVEEES that kind of move!'

[@mjorozco3786]

"Beep Beep Boop Shut up Gotham" 21:09 This is the way to stereotype chess computers

[@WomanSlayer69420]

12:06 to anyone wondering why there’s no pawn takes bishop, if pawn takes, queen could take a pawn and check twice, and then move the e-pawn to finish off their king.

[@severnkariuki9129]

Me: I once sacrificed a pawn and recaptured in the next move to take my turns. Alphazero: I once sacrificed all my pawns to get a narrowly winning endgame after 36 moves.

[@xyrus345]

AlphaZero: Bong Botez strategy go BRRRRRRRRRR.

[@Gh0styyYT]

The gangster move at 10:30 is the most absolute savagery I've ever seen

[@marinhosantos1929]

5:53 move. Why didn't the queen take the A2 pawn?

[@moonbow5019]

@@marinhosantos1929 The war is on the other side and you wanna take a pawn?

[@exdejesus]

Thank you for explaining how novel this style of play is! It's really fascinating. It's also amazing how new realms of chess are being discovered, even though chess has been around for a long time.

[@harmanshah1238]

The fact that stock fish plays the French after it’s queen is jailed the previous game is prof that alpha zero is just trolling

[@Mailliweer]

I love how Gotham's commentary gives our new computer chess overlords vibrant personalities, "AlphaZero is an absolute SAVAGE...AlphaZero does not like e4... I'll take your soul!" Very entertaining overall, also RIP Stockfish.

[@xEr_ror]

The alpha zero engine is just mean. That's all there is to it. It does everything in its power to be a dick to its opponent, and make them suffer. It's awesome.

[@bogomilsgg4848]

It’s like Magnus Carlsen, but also good at chess!

[@isaacalzate8262]

Stockfish is like a cold robot mathematically choosing how to kill you while alphazero is like a alien being that surpassed the universe and just wants to cause pain while it destroys you with perfect logic

[@nebulisnoobis102]

@@isaacalzate8262 YOU BELIEVE I BLUNDER WHEN IT IS YOU WHO HAS BLUNDERED

[@user-si5ik5xf3m]

I think stockfish sees and simulates the game 10-30 moves ahead. But α⁰ seemingly simulates the game several hundred moves ahead.

[@cosmicball1670]

​@@user-si5ik5xf3m more wrong that ever Stockfish can see 150k notes on a fricking phone

[@usptact]

Literally any position. Alphazero: I’ve seen this before