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0 pointspmarreck4mo ago0 comments

I would love to examine Stockfish play that seemed extremely counterintuitive but which ended up winning. How can I do so? (I don't inhabit any of the current chess spaces so have no idea where to look, but my son is approaching the age where I can start to teach him...).

That said, chess is such a great human invention. (Go is up there too. And texas no-limit hold'em poker. Those are my top 3 votes for "best human tabletop games ever invented". They're also, perhaps not uncoincidentally, the hardest for computers to be good at. Or, were.)

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qsort4mo ago

The problem is that Stockfish is so strong that the only way to have it play meaningful games is to put it against other computers. Chess engines play each other in automated competitions like TCEC.

If you look on Youtube there are many channels where strong players analyze these games. As Demis Hassabis once put it, it's like chess from another dimension.

elevatortrim4mo ago

> I would love to examine Stockfish play that seemed extremely counterintuitive but which ended up winning.

If you want to see this against someone like Magnus, it is rare as super GMs do not spend a lot of time playing engines publicly.

But if you want to see them against a normal chess master somewhere between master and international master, it is every where. For e.g. this guy analyses his every match afterwards and you frequently here "oh I would never see that line":

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLp7SLTJhX1u6zKT5IfRVm...

(start watching around 1000+ for frequently seeing those moments)

mquander4mo ago

I recommend Matthew Sadler's Game Changer and The Silicon Road To Chess Improvement.

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