Leela reacts beautifully in French McCutcheon variation using remarkable double pawn sac | TCEC 14

[@kingscrusher]

Replayable game with indented variations: www.chessworld.net/chessclubs/ltpgnviewer32/ltpgnboard.asp?GameID=5024065

[@NerkhiDanser]

About Gingko Biloba . . .. ... ..... Also known as 'Temple Tree'. It will boost Your cognition, sharpen Mental acuity and may even enable higher rating in Blitz games ;) There was a great fire in Tokyo about a century ago and most buildings burned to the ground but not the Temples because the Gingko surrounded the grounds and apparently they withstood fire very well, more so than any other kind of Organism known to Man. Just some trivia O:)

[@mstfici2685]

Merry Christmas and happy holidays Kingscrusher. Hopefully 2019 will be another fantastic year for you and Leela!

[@kingscrusher]

Cheers, K

[@adnan4688]

Happy Holidays to you and your family KC

[@kingscrusher]

Cheers, K

[@tarekfakhoury2426]

Can’t believe that black had a7 b7 passed pawns and lost !!!

[@piyushsharma5938]

Really great game and so instructive. .... not minding two pawns down only to stop the rooks getting connected and active. ..

[@gordonandrew101]

Beautiful game. Question: How much storage and working memory, approximately, does Leela have (in the TCEC tournament) ?

[@DanteSenior04]

Amazing game

[@kingscrusher]

Cheers, K

[@phen-themoogle7651]

But did you know that Leela /Lila (Hinduism) From Wikipedia, Lila (Sanskrit: लीला, IAST līlā) or Leela can be loosely translated as the "divine play". Can't get better than divine ^_^

[@julioandresgomez3201]

So the adventure of the black queen was unjustified, rook h3 and rook g3 is just too strong. Black had to close up with c4 and hope for the best.

[@VACatholic]

Ginko was, for a while not sure if still, considered a wonder-mind food. I.e., it improves brain function.

[@u.v.s.5583]

You cannot really have a balanced diet with stockfish alone...

[@paulbloemen7256]

Irrevocably, some openings will disappear to the history books, once we humans know how to handle those, the AI-Zero showing the way. So, chess will become a bit poorer because of this. In go, we see the same, all kinds of opening systems going overboard. Permanently for sure, no human creative outburst will be able to stand up against the AI-Zero refutation. But, what we lose in the opening, we gain in the middle game, both in chess and go. Here, there is no holding back, absolute mayhem on the board. No consolidation because we cannot oversee the consequences. For better or worse, in 2019 we will enter a new phase in those games even more. As far as I am concerned: let's go there, let's do it!

[@phen-themoogle7651]

It's going to take a long time before certain openings disappear. Especially in online blitz, bullet chess or non OTB slow style games. Even with all the knowledge humans can gain from this, for the average chess player it's like a 1000-1200 elo player trying to mimic Carlsen's 2800+ play style... And everyone isn't playing chess at a world champion level or GM level despite their being GM's/GM strength players or GM strength opening books since long ago. The only thing that will change within the next few years is maybe the traditional chess engine, so it can perform better against Leela since computer chess competition is a way of promoting your engines. I can see that staying competitive. I think some strong GM players have more creative openings than some of the traditional engines, but just don't have the strength to get good enough positions in the middle or endgame against engines/neural networks. The openings aren't too problematic, it's really the players (traditional engine or human) understanding of chess that's the issue. But the thing I can see changing is how some positional understanding or strategies might become more popular; fawn pawns, giving up pawns for better positions, etc. There are more important lessons to learn than changing openings or that a particular opening is busted/broken. Leela is playing something weaker than itself, thus the opening isn't necessarily wrong for that engine/entity. It's like, if you play against somebody a few hundred points weaker than you, even if they play a good opening, you will still take advantage of their errors in the middle game etc Leela is just capitalizing on some minor errors that happen later on in the game. In this dutch, most stronger players that play white won't castle kingside immediately, castling too quickly is a big commitment (as we've seen in previous Leela games where Leela takes advantage of their king position) A lot of traditional engines end up misevaluating the position of their king too early and don't read out these subtle attacks. From leela games, proper timing for castling, non-castling, is also something that can be learned. If Leela played herself for this dutch game, it would probably be a draw, or show how to play more properly anyhow. I'm looking forward to neural networks dominating in 2019 too ^_^

[@vargas2022]

What a weird transposition to French Defence.