Chess: Shedding New Light on Deepmind’s AlphaZero

I wrote a blog post exactly 1 year ago on AlphaZero’s breakthrough win against Stockfish.  

Today I came across a detailed peer-reviewed research article on AlphaZero published in Science Magazine. It talks about evolution of AlphaZero.

Here is the article:

AlphaZero: Shedding new light on the grand games of chess, shogi and Go

Here is the Science Magazine article:

A general reinforcement learning algorithm that masters chess, shogi, and Go through self-play

There are also detailed analysis videos by AlphaZero. Check out the 10-part series…