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What was the first chess engine that could beat the world champion on a standard desktop?
Deep Blue was a super computer. In the 2006 match, Kramnik was defeated by Deep Fritz that everybody could buy.
In a November 2006 match between Deep Fritz and world chess champion
Vladimir ...
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Is it possible for a move to be recomended by engines but rejected by professional human players?
I see three situations, where something like you describe could happen:
wild tactical positions with open king, where moves have to be very precise and many humans might be too scared to enter such ...
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How to make an AI chess engine which can play like a human of similar rating?
You can take a look at the Maia Chess project. What they've done is that they've built a customized version of Leela Chess wherein instead of the policy value looking for the best move, it looks for ...
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What was the first chess engine that could beat the world champion on a standard desktop?
A standard desktop today is significantly more powerful than whatever machine Deep Blue was running on in the mid-1990s against Kasparov. Since Deep Blue was the first engine to beat a world champion,...
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Dataset: Chess Positions and evaluation value
This is what I use for my training purposes for this project.
Source
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Is it possible for a move to be recomended by engines but rejected by professional human players?
Yes, it's possible. See this article. The gist is, if for you're in a "draw and I win this tournament" situation, you would quite naturally play moves that might not be the best, but keeps the ...
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Who is best at Fischer Random chess, humans or engines?
The machine, hands down.
These days the machine is so incomparably stronger than a player, that even if a player comes up with a better long-term strategy, they will still lose to inevitably missing ...
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Are computers destroying chess?
A new answer like this to a four-year-old question is probably doomed to lie, unread, at the bottom of the answer column, yet four years late I have something different to add, so here goes.
That ...
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Can I download early versions of Leela chess zero?
For early versions, the lczero project's download page refers you to the lc0 releases available on GitHub. For versions from 2018, you can go the lczero repository on GitHub.
Note that while the ...
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How to make an AI chess engine which can play like a human of similar rating?
As far as I know, every chess playing program combines a depth-limited search of the game tree with a heuristic algorithm to estimate the favorability of each position. There's a tradeoff between ...
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How to make an AI chess engine which can play like a human of similar rating?
In theory, chess is a Markovian game -- the current state says it all, how you reach the current state, ie all the previous moves, doesn't matter. This is how computers play chess.
For humans, ...
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How to make an AI chess engine which can play like a human of similar rating?
Use a number of weak engines. Make them vote.
Suppose you take any number of relatively weak engines - some with deep searches but poor evaluation heuristics, some with shallow searches, some using ...
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What is Stockfish 15's FIDE calibrated Elo rating?
Stockfish 15 is about 3620 rating on the FIDE scale. See the ratings in TCEC Cup 10 which played with a Stockfish that is slightly stronger than Stockfish 15.)
We can take the TCEC ratings as "...
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Pros and cons of engine-assisted play for training
Engine-assisted training is interesting.
The advantages of using an engine for analysis is well known, whilest for study it's limited.
One of the reasons I can think of, is that for training openings ...
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How to make an AI chess engine which can play like a human of similar rating?
Can someone either point me to an existing engine which plays like a human based on your level or recommend me some guidelines as how we can make it using AI ?
There is simply no such thing. ...
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Machine Learning parameters for human vs computer detection
Coming from a machine learning background, although this sounds like a supervised learning task, do not expect any decent results.
Most players today use the computer to analyze positions and prepare ...
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Most complicated mode for chess engines
You are talking about playing suboptimal moves for bluffing. Stockfish is not good at that... Chess programming theories are no good because it’s hard to define a complicated position. There were ...
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Who is best at Fischer Random chess, humans or engines?
The engine.
It’s Chess960 time at the TCEC! (https://tcec-chess.com) The more I watch these games, the more I feel that the gap between humans and engines is even higher in Chess960 than in normal ...
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Are computers destroying chess?
Chess is the only game where Computers can show the best performance . I mean they play the real moves .
From a learning perspective I believe Computers are not a good tool for strategic perspective ....
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Deep Blue vs Kasparov - Aftermath
Kasparov did just (beginning of 2017) publish a new book on this topic. He comments on the whole IBM fair play issue in the book.
In the book Kasparov also reflects on why IBM placed Russian speaking ...
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How to make an AI chess engine which can play like a human of similar rating?
By programming it using human concepts and thinking instead of just pure raw brute-force calculation (like a computer). There was an old engine [Wchess], used in the Power Chess 98 and Majestic Chess ...
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Is a mechanical, Turk-like, purely mechanical self-moving chess set with decent AI possible?
Without question it possible to build a mechanical NAND gate.
Basic 1st year computer science tells us that any type of logic gates can be made by combining NAND gates.
Lets assume unlimited money, so ...
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Pros and cons of engine-assisted play for training
In theory, training against engines offers several important advantages compared to other training methods such as studying books, or even playing other humans, at least under typical conditions (...
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Is a mechanical, Turk-like, purely mechanical self-moving chess set with decent AI possible?
I would like to try answer this question even though I'm not an expert, because unlike other answerer/commenters, I think the best approach is not to build a general purpose computing device like a ...
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Setting Stockfish at 2900 strength for a match against top 1-5 GMs
No, playing with engines in lower level it is not so interesting. Usually they play better than the level you have chosen and suddenly they blunder. Nothing interesting and nothing human.
So if ...
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Is it possible for a move to be recomended by engines but rejected by professional human players?
I would say definately yes. One example is the situation of a fortress. Even though one side is up in material the position is not winable. The engines can figure out that the fortress will not break ...
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Is it possible for a move to be recomended by engines but rejected by professional human players?
Yes, it is very much possible and this is the very reason different openings exist!
Some examples:
1 e4 as White is suggested by almost all engines. However, some GM's and WC feel that e4 is too ...
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Is it possible for a move to be recomended by engines but rejected by professional human players?
Well... absolutely possible and common. Magnus Carlsen himself said "I don't care" on his very positive position in the last game of the 2018 WCC match. Did he offer a draw in a position that a chess ...
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Stockfish ELO vs search depth
Yes, Brainfish 221119 Depth 16 can beat Carlsen even if it only runs at 2000 Kn/s in the starting position. Brainfish 221119 depth 16 has an 2820 ELO rating.
This 2820 ELO Rating is Standard Rating, ...
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Has there ever been a game where multiple humans play against a single chess computer?
Here's a source about how GM David Howell and three others took on AlphaZero in a game. They played two games, both drawn.
Caveat: AlphaZero isn't like conventional engines. Conventional engines have ...
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