AI Is Now The Undisputed Champion Of Computer Chess - AI Summary

On the other side was a new program called AlphaZero (the "zero" meaning no human knowledge in the loop), a chess engine in some ways very much weaker than Stockfish--powering through just 1/100th as many moves per second as its opponent. The AI engine won the match (winning 28 games and drawing the rest) with dazzling sacrifices, risky moves, and a beautiful style that was completely new to the world of computer chess. British chess grandmaster Matthew Sadler and mathematician and chessmaster Natasha Regan are still piecing together how AlphaZero's strategy works in their new book, Game Changer. We're breaking open two moves in just one of the games to show the aggressive style, what it does, and what humans can learn from our new chess champion. By move 42, AlphaZero has sacrificed even more pawns, and is marching another poor, disposable sucker toward oblivion.