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> The chess version beat a leading conventional chess program 28 wins, 0 losses, and 72 draws.

In a not equal fight, and the results are still not published. I'm not claiming that AlphaZero wouldn't win, but that test was pure garbage.

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The results were published - https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.01815

I agree AlphaZero had fancier hardware and so it wasn't really a fair fight.

Stockfish is not designed to scale to supercomputing clusters or TPUs, Alpha Zero wasn't designed to account for how long it takes to make a move, fair fight was hard to arrange.

No, these are not full results. There are just 10 example games published. Where is the rest?

How was it not equal?

There's discussion here https://chess.stackexchange.com/questions/19366/hardware-use... AlphaZero's hardware was faster and Stockfish had a year old version with non optimum settings. It was still an impressive win but it would be interesting to do it again with a more level playing field.

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