Stockfish's Immortal | | Fish vs Leela | TCEC Season 14 Superfinal | Game 66

[@heshamabdelmaksoud]

That feeling when I saw the white king flying to capture the knight

[@lacee0123]

Hesham Abdelmaksoud Top comment 😂😂

[@heroricspiritfreinen38]

😂😂

[@TheKorbi]

4:24

[@DipanGhosh]

Oh no... not the KING...

[@andrecarcausto2740]

Mind blowing

[@skiperinoagadmaterino446]

Vast knowledge 0:00 First move 1:11 Completely new game 2:23 Find next move 15:36

[@TheSaltyScrub]

Will there ever be another salt chronicles episode because I'm losing hope

[@lobsterfork]

A Kripparino here? Kripparinos are so uncivilized.

[@wdcvQ2]

You missed the King flight 4:24

[@isawicameiconqueredandcame3708]

Lol you memorized his pattern. But theres no guess who's in the pic

[@ThePavelkomin]

For anyone wondering why not play *bishop takes rook* at 1:55, because black takes knight on e5 with bishop and white can't recapture the bishop with the d4 pawn because his queen would be hanging. Now black has pretty much completed development while white didn't even start and he is forced to defend the d4 pawn with another pawn move.

[@bharathmv5078]

Excellent analysis.

[@fahimp3]

Bishop takes Knight on e5. White only wins an exchange, but black gets a lot of activity. My engine read somewhere between -0.40 and -0.60 in Blacks favor after 3.1 Billion nodes (took me 35 min to get, which TCEC can do in 40 seconds). Here is an example line: Bd6xe5 e2-e3 c7-c5 f2-f4 Be5-c7 b3xc4 O-O Kf1-g2 c5xd4 Qd1xd4 Qd8-c8 Ba8-f3 Rf8-d8 Qd4-b2 Ba6xc4 Nb1-c3 Nb8-d7 Rh1-d1 Nd7-c5 Rd1xd8+ Bc7xd8 Qb2-c2 e6-e5 Bc1-a3 Nc5-d3 Ra1-d1 e5-e4 Bf3-e2 Qc8-c6 Kg2-g1 Bc4-b5 Rd1xd3 e4xd3 Be2xd3 Bb5xd3 Qc2xd3 Qc6-d7 Qd3xd7 Nf6xd7 Kg1-f2 f7-f6 e3-e4 Kg8-f7 Kf2-e3 g7-g6 Ke3-d4 Bd8-e7 Ba3xe7 Kf7xe7 Nc3-d5+ Ke7-f7 Kd4-e3 Nd7-c5...

[@fahimp3]

Update, after 5.5 Billion nodes (a standard node count at TCEC) and I have the following: -0.55 Bd6xe5 e2-e3 c7-c5 f2-f4 Be5-c7 Kf1-g2 O-O b3xc4 c5xd4 Qd1xd4 Nb8-d7 Ba8-f3 e6-e5 Qd4-d2 Qd8-c8 Rh1-d1 Rf8-d8 Qd2-c2 Rd8-e8 Nb1-c3 Ba6xc4 Ra1-b1 e5xf4 e3xf4 Bc7-b8 Rb1-b4 Bc4-e6 Rb4-d4 Nd7-c5 Qc2-d2 Be6-h3+ Kg2-h1 Nc5-e6 Rd4-b4 Bb8-d6 Qd2xd6 Qc8xc3 Rb4-b3 Qc3-c2 Qd6-d3 Bh3-f5 Qd3-d2 Re8-c8 Rb3-a3 Nf6-e4 Qd2xc2 Rc8xc2 Kh1-g1 Ne4-f2 This is certainly "playable" for a human game (maybe even GM lvl) but not for engines.

[@fahimp3]

@Agosto Ceilings How was it free before? The king was in check.

[@bharathmv5078]

@Agosto Ceilings black gets a knight + activity for a dormant rook. Moreover, CxB3 is also a threat after the knight is captured, messing the pawn structure of white. This trade favours black more than white I suppose. Pls correct me if I'm wrong.

[@luismiguelcasal9162]

Probably the most mindblowing game I've ever seen. That's how Chess looks like in the 3500 ELO stratosphere. These beasts are spoiling us, human chess looks dull and clumsy after contemplating games like this. Kramnik was right, the depth of Chess is unfathomable.

[@christianaustin782]

Perfectly worded comment 👌

[@Euquila]

This game is pretty mindblowing... check out this one too kzbin.info/www/bejne/hJKwpGWad9SopbM

[@valerio1292]

exactly my thought. i literally have goosebumps lol

[@-_Nuke_-]

Correct! Yeah, I wonder how chess in 100 years will look like. Surely not like it does today!!!

[@jingerstorm]

@@-_Nuke_- i believe in 100 years , humans would walk up to alpha zero descendants and ask "hi lets play chess" alpha zero : "ok , I win. Thanks for Playing" human: "cool thanks.

[@yourdedcat-qr7ln]

that may have the best game I have ever seen. the amount of kingside pressure was ungodly the constant mating threats even being material down. then the threat of pawn promotion. I couldnt even ask for more.

[@ahsanabbas1397]

F*#king finally! About time the seafood won something.

[@josephcrespo7822]

Ikr, why is stockfish so bad at chess?😂

[@Atombender]

@@josephcrespo7822 Most fish are.

[@Ultrabeast-ok2ou]

@@josephcrespo7822 Stockfish+NNUE is completely winning and also Stockfish is the highest rated computer in the world

[@josephcrespo7822]

@@Ultrabeast-ok2ou would love to see another rematch between nuee fish and A0

[@fickificki2391]

@@Ultrabeast-ok2ou leela always beats stockfish now

[@stateofdecay2210]

OOOOHHHHH MYYYYY GOOOOOD how could you not cover Stockfish's Games, I know it is moves by engine, and engines don't think like neural networks, but just look at this game , look at the moves, look how brutal it is, I think it is one of the best games that you have ever analyzed, for the sake of chess please cover more Stockfish's games, I am still processing that light square bishop moves, that is just splendid and magnificent , I think I just fell in love with Stockfish's light square bishop, I mean that bishop was even stronger that Leela's Queen, wasn't it!!

[@alhassanali4829]

True. Sometimes stockfish turns BRUTAL

[@angelmendez-rivera351]

But most Stockfish games are not this good. That was the point of his comment.

[@iliillillilli2991]

@@angelmendez-rivera351 you should watch the recent games of the new stockfish NNUE some of the best games ive ever seen an insane queen sac against leela, and so many other amazing looking games with insane moves and postions.

[@stateofdecay2210]

@@iliillillilli2991today I re-watch this game again and if you know those games use #suggestion so Agadmator will show them on his channel, it'd be great if you share those games, Thank You !

[@T1bonkyou]

4:23 Pawn recaptures queen and now King G1 captures C6 with a tempo on the black queen. (Stockfish’s flying sardineking gambit denied)

[@stavrosfay8454]

*Denied*

[@carlphilip4393]

That feeling when you are called an "excellent master of check-mating neural networks"

[@eongaming7559]

4:24 And in this position, Leela simply stopped caring about the rules of chess.

[@kappablanca5192]

That’s Stockfish :)

[@davidvizgan4491]

Fun fact: My friend from home is a descendant of Georg Rotlewi who lost to Rubinstein. He told me that from his own family accounts Rotlewi was never the same and went insane as a result of this brilliancy. Wikipedia describes it as an "anxiety disorder" but yeah :(

[@Sundowner777]

Kinda common with older players They are brilliant = Goes insane Lose to brilliancy = Goes Insane Broke = Goes Insane Rich = Goes insane Lose one game = Go insane Their brains just overload with way to much info and doubt like a computer hard drive being pushed to the max Chess is scary

[@bustarogers9990]

@@Sundowner777 Thank God i'll never have that problem ; ).

[@stemapoweredcom5536]

woah

[@cfgauss71]

This game, as well as Akibo Rubenstein's, reminds all of us chess players why we rank the bishop #1, above all other pieces.

[@emilkisielewicz9044]

4:23 IN THE SPIRIT OF MIKHAIL TAL

[@adilmehmood255]

What I found interesting in this match so far is that stockfish won with both the white & black pieces .... however all of Leela's win were with the white pieces only

[@SuperYtc1]

Small sample size. How many wins has Stockfish actually got with the black pieces?

[@adilmehmood255]

@@SuperYtc1 2 out of 8 wins are with black till now..ie around 79 games

[@SuperYtc1]

@@adilmehmood255 So you're basing this off of 2 wins. I'd say that's not really a big enough number to draw anything meaningful from. If they played 1 million games, and stockwish was the only one to win with black, then that would be relevant.

[@adilmehmood255]

@@SuperYtc1 Not drawing anything..i just found it interesting...

[@jmareeswaran]

@@adilmehmood255 I agree. Leela prefers to simplify using forcing lines and draw with black. But stockfish is able to find strong tactics . It seems like Leela slows down the game, but stockfish csn still win by constantly keeping the tempo up

[@clusterfork]

"Without further ado... [a bit more ado]" - Classic agadmator :)

[@pochi3977]

this stockfish guy is really good, maybe he needs to apply for an engine job.

[@condoriano1469]

BrUh stOcKfiSh is AlreaDy a EngiNe

[@BekeroParyin]

@@condoriano1469 r/WhOoOoSh

[@toasterztoast1432]

@@BekeroParyin woooooosh

[@toasterztoast1432]

@@BekeroParyin lol

[@cae9838]

@@toasterztoast1432 he was whooshing with the same tone, so we can assume negative times negative times negative = negative to you, so.. r/whoooshh! Oh wait! You used the sacred weapon "lol" so no more whoosh is relevant.

[@jiaxiangyang8081]

For anyone wondering, at 4:27 why K to f8 is equally losing, after white takes the pawn, there is almost no way for black to prevent white from checkmating backrank without losing a queen or a rook

[@wolffang21burgers]

1:23... Yes it was held to a draw... But the position was lost :( poor Leela and her lack of TBs

[@pkundrat]

SF does not have 7men TB either and saw Leela's win too. That was another Leela blunder.

[@jackmuller5478]

she has tb support at his point, but her endgame conversion is still prone to the occasional blunder caused by some tactical blindspots in her net... hopefully test40 fixes this though, she still has a lot of potential

[@wolffang21burgers]

@@pkundrat Oh ok, only 6men? True. But as Jack points out, lots of potential seeing as with a boost of a SF engine for the last bit of 2 of those games Leela would be 3 up. So she's doing well enough in the midgame atm, but does need some refinement.

[@pkundrat]

@@wolffang21burgers Yes - very promising but if she saw those perpetuals, she would be already dominant.

[@peters972]

And you are an excellent tree traversal explorer! It takes a lot of talent to look down each path and still hold the attention of your audience, but somehow you unpack it so it is understandable and interesting!

[@MonitorVonSynthesizer]

...and on move 15, Agadmator creates completely new game by pushing f4... 3:04 :D

[@szczepanniemiec1735]

So many complications, a true game in the spirit of Mikhail Tal

[@neat2014]

4:24 that’s one crazy king

[@ezramarler9470]

15:49 I saw Bh7+ which forces king h8. Then I saw that if I pushed the e pawn then leela could use the queen to block the queening square, so you could sack the bishop and play Rf8+. Then if KxBh7 you could push the e pawn to queen as the queen is fast enough to stop it, but she’d have to give it up as the rook protects it from f8. Then I wondered what if the king didn’t accept the bishop, which would actually leave black lost, according to my calculations. Kg7 would be met with e7 which protects the rook, and then after Qe2, white could play e8 with queen and if black sacks their queen Qxe8 then you do Rxe8 and get out of danger from the king. Then it’s just a winning rook-nothing endgame. I’m pretty proud of that as an 1100, though I guess it isn’t checkmate.

[@davidborger7159]

Vast-knowledge increaser: When playing this opening as white, Leela got into a winning position (Stockfish evalueted 152 pawns of advantage for leela), but wasnt capable of finding the winning manouvre.

[@abdulassamadshishani2519]

7:05 " how this bishop keeps wiggling in " bishop ft snoop : " wiggle wiggle wiggle "

[@heroricspiritfreinen38]

I thought I would hate a game seeing "good old stockfish dominating again" but this was surprisingly interesting. I wouldn't mind to see more of these so please don't hesitate if you ever want to show one again💯💯

[@aayushjariwala6256]

(5:32) U can't *N×e6* Bcoz in response *Nd8* comes!!! U can't move your knight(white) As queen is pinned!!!

[@danielchequer5842]

That moment when you think Agadmator said "this is just awesome" for the Queen move but then he plays Kxd5.

[@Nonixification]

Stockfish: Mate in 103

[@louisgabrielkiddermoorebac9289]

This is my favorite KZbin channel in the world.

[@JazevoAudiosurf]

dude this game is awesome, can we get more of these

[@Saurabhsingh1234-y2z]

and the bishop pair and the position of queen and bishop pair reminded me of the kasoarov and karpov 24 th match ...the match that were in interviews of kasparov where he displayed all his combinations on board just by changing peice pisitions with his hands like a magician

[@abdullaalmosalami]

That was absolutely insane. Absolutely insane.

[@MrVijaymane20]

Amazing Game ! Really Enjoyed 👍

[@schwindsichtigaderechte5293]

That blew my mind. Such an elegant game from an engine!

[@amaancool7910]

1:54 whats the problem with capturing the rook on a8

[@akilanilamparithi5977]

Queen hangs when bishop captures knight on the next move and next the possible outcomes are terrible for one rook!

[@richardfeynman5560]

This is just amazing! Those machines can produce incredibly beautiful games, like out of this world!

[@nailfelagund7508]

It reminds of Lela's game where she had that beautiful bishop pair as well and just kept pressing on the King's side!

[@theunknownexplorer1944]

1:56 Why didn't stockfish capture the rook with its bishop? Bxa8 is a great move according to me. Anyone knows why stockfish didn't do it?

[@synthesiageek4667]

My favourite agad video. Great job, and nice explanation.

[@ivarkristoffersson3282]

Thanks! Very nice game and Great coverage of TCEC. It is an amazing shift in chess and AI that a self learning computer perhaps will win!! The future is here!!

[@wixom01]

Computer vs computer would normally put me to sleep, but not this match. It's much more akin to human games because of the vastly different styles of the two programs. Fascinating.

[@0bada905]

I find it so beautiful when there are many hanging pieces that the opponent shouldn't capture... really reminds me if the "american beauty" game... it was also really beautiful

[@rogerstone3068]

I went back in time to see the Rubenstein game - who was that boy doing the commentary!!

[@raulraul81]

This is the most exciting game I´ve ever seen. Ever.

[@colemanadamson5943]

Great game by Stockfish! I prefer Leela simply because of the haunting and beautiful thumbnail this channel chose to use but I've wanted Stockfish to show some skills....and it really did in this game.

Congratulations! You are an excellent youtuber of chess.

[@steventhomas3918]

#suggestion - how about a blunder series? I was just reading up on Popiel v Marco game played in 1902. Somehow I don’t think we’ll see many blunders from Stockfish or Leela.... Good video by the way, thumbs up from me.

[@WannesMalfait]

Leela has blundered some winning positions to a draw and some drawn positions to a loss.

[@ex0duzz]

@1:56 after black plats Bd6, it seems like his rook on a8 is en prise? Why can't white take it?

[@leadnitrate2194]

It's been a year and I'm still wondering about that.

[@andrewkoines6389]

@@leadnitrate2194 It's late here, but I think Bxe5 is good. Black is still down the exchange but is threatening Bxd4 winning. White stops it and then black plays c6 trapping the white bishop on a8 which will eventually be lost. That is my guess.

[@mothhunter2337]

9:10 if all of those pieces that are in the way of black knights d3, e2, g2, and h3 are bishops the knight can’t take any of them for any amount of correct played moves

[@vancebocas7626]

That Rxe5 was simply amazing!

[@baptistebauer99]

i think that stockfish guy might be using an engine I love your videos Agad!! :)

[@TheSoccerStar30]

Agadmator: this monstrosity Also agadmator: it's very beautiful

[@isawicameiconqueredandcame3708]

Every move gives me chills lol. Scary how engines could play like that.

[@jerrywang696]

9:20 what about 38...Rxf3 instead of 38...gxh6? Opening that long diagonal seemed to make the defense fall apart.

[@spaceghost7807]

When you moved the king hella hard like a bishop I bust out laughing Agad :)

[@thejupiter1744]

Wow 😮. What a computable game.

[@markattila9835]

It seems odd that one engine would be able gain such an amount of advantage against another (they don't blunder), so I analyzed the game with Stockfish 10 and it seems that Leela had indeed made a blunder at 38. gxh6 gxh6. Here the engine evaluates the position as slightly better +1.6 if black played Rxf3 instead of gxh6 which evaluates to +5, a huge advance! So I'm curious how this could have happened?

[@abadana.2979]

This game art is another dimension

[@cygnustsp]

I do enjoy the small, deliberate, seemingly passive but highly strategic moves made by engines, where humans would blunder after blunder

[@gruminatorII]

Wow no human would ever play a game like this, absolutely crazy

[@andriesvantonder6752]

you mention that stockfish in the same position could hold leela to draw, but in game 65 when leela had the white pieces, leela simply could not convert a won ending, stockfish had it as +150, but leela did not know how to convert. It was a won ending.

[@TheSupersnake007]

Wonderful game and excellent analysis by king 🤴 Agadmator

[@bradenstewart6270]

3 views and 28 likes 🧐 Agadmator has broken the KZbin algorithm with his superior knowledge

[@smrtfasizmu6161]

In the end, you showed the variation in which white doesn't win, because after bishop to h7, black king moves to h8, and white pushes his h pawn, black queen can go to e2 and threaten to capture the e6 pawn with check. I tried to play this position against stockfish 8 and after several minutes of trying I succeeded to find a variation which stockfish 8 couldn't defend (it is safe to say there is no better defense) black loses the queen after 7 moves (position starts after bishop to h7 check and black king moves to h8). Move 1) White h5, Black queen to e2. Move 2) White e7, Black queen to e6. Move 3) White bishop to g6, Black queen to d5 (this comes with check). Move 4) White king to h6, Black queen to e6. Move 5) White rook to h7 (giving check to the Black king), Black King to g8. Move 6) White finally pushes e8 and promotes to a queen, Black captures on e8. Move 7) White bishop captures on e8 and black loses the queen. The rest is only a matter of style how much moves you need to deliver mate, but it is over. You have a rook, a knight and 4 pawns against a king with 2 pawns. You can checkmate however you please.

[@harshpatwardhan7624]

Thanks Agadmator, beautiful game. What about the quote by Shakespeare, I don't think it is related to this game!

[@ryanjacob8957]

14:12 why didn't stockfish capture on d6, threating to capture the bishop and deliver checkmate?

[@sayyadrazzak4517]

@1:56 why bishop (white) didn't capture Rook (Black)?? 🤔

[@Eliges]

Can anyone explain to me @1:57 why the bishop from g2 doesn't capture the rook on a8?

[@Wi11daThri11]

@4:27 What is black plays Kf8 in response to the Bishop check??

[@jiaxiangyang8081]

K to f8 is equally losing, after white takes the pawn, there is almost no way for black to prevent white from checkmating backrank without losing a queen or a rook

[@yZempX]

May someone explain me the difference between a regular engine and a neural network? And maybe, at 2:02 why not capturing the rook on a8 with the bishop?

[@harleykf1]

As far as I'm aware, a neural network learns how to evaluate a position using a network of nodes, whereas stockfish for example spends far more of its processing time doing brute force calculations and doesn't 'learn'

[@julioandresgomez3201]

Yes, when Stockfish gets ghost of a chance is a Terminator. Leela usually fails to convert winning positions.

[@jerrykco]

Wow! That was pretty awesome

[@-_Nuke_-]

What I like about engines is that they calculate all the way to mate and then they calculate all the way to how their opponent will refute their mating ideas. That's why you will see an engine first threatening mate in one and then just grabbing a pawn that it's in the other side of the board... Engines understand that you CANT checkmate in the middlegame, therefore the formula is to create many threats so that your opponent can't defend them all at once... Here we see Stockfish on the one hand threatening mate in 1 and on the other grabbing pawns that have nothing to do with the checkmate... So... threatening mate in some moves and also threatening to capture pawns or create past pawns on your own and any defence will crumble - that's the correct way of playing chess. Never believe that you have a true attack in the middlegame, if chess is a draw (which it is) then you shouldn't have one ;)

[@badereric]

this is true for engine chess, but if you never attack in chess its about half as fun as it could be and you will lose some games you should win because humans arent engines

[@allinrecordsmedia]

Can you explain why white didn’t capture the rook on A8 after black played D6 on move 8-9? Instead capturing the pawn with Nc4

[@themoeszyslakexperience4639]

01:56 Why not Bishop captures rook on a8??

[@edocres]

I have the same question!!

[@kurtamesbury6679]

@1:55 - I'm not seeing the trap. Why not BxR ?

[@maxnullifidian]

Heck, I don't care who wins, a beautiful game is beautiful regardless of who (or what) gets the point!

[@chrisgilmet304]

The dog always seems to go berserko right when you say "Hello everyone!"

[@chengzhou8711]

When I saw “stockfish immortal”, I thought “this had better be good.” Also, it’s my birthday today.

[@nyarlathotep1743]

"checkmater of neural networks" hahahaha I dont know why thats so funny

[@Euquila]

7:19 the fawnship is established :D

[@DaV23THPS]

i think the greatest game i ever seen ...

[@Mimikyurem]

2:00, could someone help me with this? I don't understand why white doesn't capture the rook on a8

[@imreliq9774]

Guys I ask for help. I use to play chess when I was around 9. Now at 21 I want to get back into it, and have watched many of his videos trying to learn. But I, as basically a beginner, have no idea as to strategies, things to build/develop, and seeing multiple moves ahead. Is there any advice, video, comment, or anything alike to help me become the best I can be?

[@siddhantjhaveri]

Maybe a little late but there are lots of videos on KZbin to help you get better for eg. Gotham Chess and Agadmator himself. And the best way to get better is to learn from your mistakes. Analyse the games that you play (easy to do so if online) and note your mistakes. Also note what moves were better and most importantly WHY they were better. Also if you read this, since you posted this quite some time ago I'd like to know how you're doing today 🙂

[@kavyanshagrawal5279]

I felt like this was Garry Kasparov's immortal game as the rook took the pawn defended by a pawn

[@SenorQuichotte]

Yeah baby those latest patches increased centipawns by over 2000

[@mohamadhijazi9797]

1:56 why didn’t the bishop capture the rook????? The knight in the middle was defended so?!?

[@SMail_stats]

One of my favorite games for sure

[@charleskennedy8695]

For those wondering why not take the Black rook at 1 : 55 please read ThePavelKomin 's comment , he / she explained it perfectly

[@epposh]

would be interesting to know what was Leela's first wrong move, after which everything went south

[@harrickvharrick3957]

Stockfish could also simply have taken the g5 pawn with his own on h4 *, keeping his queen, and not only would have won the game all the same but probably have done so in a faster and more simple manner. But hey, when you're him AND win so seldomly from your current opponent, I suppose it should look a bit fancy aye? * situation at minute 4:18

[@naimulhaq9626]

This game reminds me of Kasparov when he lost to deep blue in 1997, he said 'chess will never be the same again'.

[@DrBroncanuus]

simply the best computer game ever...Rxp !....i never saw it

[@thedave5748]

At 1:57 Why doesnt the white light square bishop take the free rook?

[@nahiss4504]

Amazing game thank you ❤

[@thewarlordscalling6537]

@agadmator:please do a short video of the Night and 2pawns vs Bishop & 1 pawn.leela vs stockfish.leela failed to convert when her eval was +10.should be game 65 or so.

[@xzjulius]

1:56 why not bishop captures on a8 instead of knight captures???

[@davegrenier1160]

Quite simply, chess engines have been programmed to play like people. Very, very smart people, but they play by the rules of thumb that have been developed over the last 150 years or so of human chess. Leela and Alpha Zero, OTOH, have taught themselves what works and what doesn't work, and have come to conclusions different from those reached by human chess masters. This is why their play is more interesting (if watching a game between two machines is interesting) - they do unexpected things for reasons that are sometimes not entirely clear. Watching them we learn new things about a game we thought we already understood. Engines' play is human play, as nearly perfected as it can be. AI play is the play of an alien mind - mysterious and unexpected.

[@Hexalyse]

Also it's not entirely true because neural networks train themselves based on very basic rules and metrics you ask them to watch for. And the result will depend on these metrics, which inherently, come from the human mind that wrote the code. We can thus argue that even neural networks are still kind of dependant on what we think might be worth taking into account when building the network.

[@shadowdancerRFW]

Chess engines are cold and very calculated. This makes them predictable to a certain degree. Alpha Zero is an entirely different entity. After learning a lot about chess, it realized that the most important aspect in this game is the position. You'll see it sacrificing a pawn or piece early in game for a small positional advantage which it will snowball to the point it will win the game, no matter how perfectly the opponent plays. It really is mind blowing, and it taught us a few lessons about chess.

[@adamwu4565]

@@hansderhalbe9229 It is probably more accurate to say that humans play like neural nets. Because human brains basically are neural nets. Just slow, suboptimal ones (in this context) constantly distracted by a million other things besides learning how to play chess, and insufficiently trained due to the slow speed of self-play. Chess engines have been programmed with all the knowledge humans have about chess, but they don't play like humans because their architecture is fundamentally different. The neural nets play like superhumans because they do have an architecture that is more similar to human brains, without the human brains' weaknesses when it comes to chess. We could say that the chess engines are a distillation of the human science of chess, while the neural nets recapitulate the human instinct and artistry of chess.

[@adamwu4565]

@@hansderhalbe9229 We are suboptimal for chess. Better at certain other things.

[@brandojimenez6538]

How does rook to e6 at 4:35 win the queen?