Can AlphaZero play any game?

Relation to AlphaGo Zero

AlphaZero (AZ) is a more generalized variant of the AlphaGo Zero

AlphaGo Zero

AlphaGo Zero is a version of DeepMind's Go software AlphaGo. AlphaGo's team published an article in the journal Nature on 19 October 2017, introducing AlphaGo Zero, a version created without using data from human games, and stronger than any previous version.

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(AGZ) algorithm, and is able to play shogi

shogi

Shogi (将棋, shōgi, English: /ˈʃoʊɡi/, Japanese: [ɕoːɡi]), also known as Japanese chess, is a strategy board game for two players. It is one of the most popular board games in Japan and is in the same family of games as Western chess, chaturanga, Xiangqi, Indian chess, and janggi.

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and chess as well as Go.

Can I play with AlphaZero?

No, you can't play against AlphaZero, unless you get a special access from DeepMind.

How many games did AlphaZero play?

In its first nine hours of existence, AlphaZero played 44 million games of chess against itself. After two hours, it was better than any human. After four hours, it was beating the best chess program in the world.

What opening does AlphaZero play?

If you look at Figure 5, which looks at the dominant openings from 0 to 1 million training steps, AlphaZero prefers d4 more once it reaches 1 million steps. But e4 and c4 tend to follow closely behind. Nevertheless, d4 and e4 are both great first moves by white that are viable at all levels of competitive play.

Has anyone ever beaten AlphaZero?

Since the strongest human on the planet, Magnus Carlsen, doesn't even try to beat Alpha Zero, it's a pretty safe bet that no human will ever again beat these computers on their strongest level.

Deepmind AlphaZero - Mastering Games Without Human Knowledge

What is the toughest chess AI?

Stockfish has consistently ranked first or near the top of most chess-engine rating lists and, as of February 2023, is the strongest CPU chess engine in the world. Its estimated Elo rating is over 3500. It has won the Top Chess Engine Championship 13 times and the Chess.com Computer Chess Championship 19 times.

Is AlphaZero better than Deep Blue?

Applicability. Where Deep Blue's defeat against Garry Kasparov was mostly 'just' that, AlphaZero is about more than 'just' its amazing Go, Chess and Shogi performance. As said before, AlphaZero can be used to perform real World tasks, where Deep Blue was designed very specifically for Chess and Chess alone.

Has AlphaZero ever lost a game?

In a 1000-game match, AlphaZero won with a score of 155 wins, 6 losses, and 839 draws.

What is the #1 best chess opening?

Where can I play against AlphaZero?

Unfortunately, AlphaZero is not available to the public in any form. The match results versus Stockfish and AlphaZero's incredible games have led to multiple open-source neural network chess projects being created.

Has Stockfish ever lost to a human?

It is near impossible for any human to defeat Stockfish in a game of chess, and no human chess player has yet been able to beat Stockfish. It remains to be seen if the reigning undisputed world chess champion Magnus Carlsen one day gets a go at Stockfish and manages to cause an upset by upstaging it at its own game.

How much does AlphaZero cost?

The hardware cost for a single AlphaGo Zero system in 2017, including the four TPUs, has been quoted as around $25 million.

Why isn't AlphaZero available?

Deepmind/Google is in the machine learning and AI business, not producing a chess product for consumers. AlphaZero is no product that will be sold.

What makes AlphaZero so good?

In short, AlphaZero is a game-playing program that, through a combination of self-play and neural network reinforcement learning (more on that later), is able to learn to play games such as chess and Go from scratch ─ that is, after being fed nothing more than the rules of said games.

What opening does AlphaZero play as Black?

For black it prefers the Berlin against 1 e4 and for white it prefers 1 d4.

What is the weakest opening in chess?

Of the twenty possible first moves in chess, author and grandmaster Edmar Mednis argues that 1. f3 is the worst.

What is the boring chess opening?

Some players find the Berlin variation of the Ruy Lopez the most boring. Others tend to give that title "Most Boring Opening" to the London System or the Four Knights or whatever seems to be safe and sound. French players probably define the "French Exchange Variation" as boring.

What is the toughest chess opening?

Based on this premise and on the statistics in the opening database of chess.com I found out that the harder opening in chess Is the Barnes opening (1... f3).

How strong is AlphaZero?

The results leave no question, once again, that AlphaZero plays some of the strongest chess in the world. The updated AlphaZero crushed Stockfish 8 in a new 1,000-game match, scoring +155 -6 =839. (See below for three sample games from this match with analysis by Stockfish 10 and video analysis by GM Robert Hess.)

How fast did AlphaZero learn?

Starting from the basic rules of chess, after just 4 hours of self learning AlphaZero mastered chess and outperformed the reigning AI champion, Stockfish 9. AlphaZero then learned GO and Shogi and defeated its predecessor AlphaGo in 30 hours, as well as the top Shogi Elmo in only 2 hours.

How many moves can AlphaZero see?

I checked the AlphaZero chess paper and it says the policy representation contains 4,672 possible moves. It encodes as a combination of starting square and move so most moves are just a subset of the possible moves for a queen.

Can AlphaZero beat Stockfish 12?

Stockfish 12 would be the clear winner. Stockfish 12 beats Stockfish 8 (which was AlphaZero's opponent) more dominant than AlphaZero had beaten Stockfish 8.

Who has beaten AlphaGo?

After the match between AlphaGo and Ke Jie, DeepMind retired AlphaGo, while continuing AI research in other areas. The self-taught AlphaGo Zero achieved a 100–0 victory against the early competitive version of AlphaGo, and its successor AlphaZero is currently perceived as the world's top player in Go.

Did Stockfish beat AlphaZero?

That's because AlphaZero beat Stockfish 8 by +155 = 839 -6, which is an elo difference of about 50. The latest versions of Stockfish are capable of beating Stockfish 8 by about 150 elo (see also this).