What is Alpha Zero's Play Style? (Including its Openings and its Middlegame) [closed]

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If you want to read about its opening strategy, it is down below the link. If you want to read about its middlegame strategy or basic play style, it is at the top

I want to know how I can play more like Alpha Zero. I think if we can see the main ideas that Alpha Zero uses (like fianchettoing his bishop) and put them into our own games, we could understand chess better and play better overall. Listed below are some few styles I learned from Alpha Zero, and below that are questions to spark your imagination about the different styles to look for in Alpha Zero's plays.

1. It tries to immobilize pieces. Particularly the light square bishop is most of its games but it can be implemented on other pieces too.

2. It prefers position over the material. (Unlike other chess engines, Alpha Zero is fine sacrificing a material to get an advantage, such as sacrificing a pawn to immobilize a light-squared bishop.

3. It prefers fianchettoing his light-squared bishop and castling kingside. This could be because most of the games were against The Queen's Indian Defence with Stockfish, but I still think it prefers this idea.

Here are some questions to spark your imagination! Would you describe Alpha Zero plays positionally of aggressively or anything in between? Does Alpha Zero prefer bishops or knights more? Does Alpha Zero use his f-pawn to attack the center or does it reject this idea? Does Alpha Zero Move his Queen to c2 often? I've seen it played in some of its games and I don't know the purpose why?

I also suggest you look at this link: https://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/alpha-zero-vs-alpha-zero-10-lesser-known-alpha-zero-lines

This link shows the openings that Alpha Zero plays if it has the black and white pieces. You can see that it doesn't barge into the center. One theory, for this reason, is that it plays flexible moves like c4 that attacks the center and waits for his opponents to barge into the center so it could pressure the center. Since white already attacks the center, the black pieces which are now in the center will have a lot of tension and fall. Also, it is a more flexible move and the formation in which to attack the center could be changed by what your opponent plays. (we still don't know what is the best way to attack the center once we found our opponents reply, we need help on that. ) In this time, it seems like white is trying to get kingside safety. There are still much more openings to explore (d4 and e4) and see the main ideas for the white and black side.

Anyway, my point is that we got a lot to learn from this information and it is going to take a long while for me to sort this out. For the chess community, let's collaborate and learn from this beast that is also known as Alpha Zero.

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I want to know how I can play more like Alpha Zero. I think if we can see the main ideas that Alpha Zero uses (like fianchettoing his bishop) and put them into our own games, we could understand chess better and play better overall.

I don't think AlphaZero is any useful for teaching us chess. While I understand your enthusiasm, you learn more from your local master than a supercomputer.

Here are some questions to spark your imagination! Would you describe Alpha Zero plays positionally of aggressively or anything in between? Does Alpha Zero prefer bishops or knights more? Does Alpha Zero use his f-pawn to attack the center or does it reject this idea? Does Alpha Zero Move his Queen to c2 often? I've seen it played in some of its games and I don't know the purpose why?

There is absolutely no way to infer from just 10 public games, but generally all modern engines prefer bishop a little better.

What we actually learn:

We haven't improved our chess playing strength from AlphaZero. What we learn is - machine learning works well with chess engine programming. Leela is a good example.

I've voted to close the question for too broad. If you can pinpoint your question to something more answerable, I'll modify my answer.