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CHESS AND

ARTIFICIAL

INTELLIGENCE

By Aryan Pandey

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Artificial Intelligence, an attempt at the Fast forward to the present,
replication of the human brain and its where defeating the best of

intricacies by a machine, has only been the game has become child’s

around since 1956. Chess, on the other hand, play for the engines. One can

has been puzzling the minds of humans even find engines that are

since the 6th century AD. Interestingly, the exponentially more powerful

two, though separated by generations, seem than the “Deep Blue” in their

to be the perfect fit for one another. phones and personal

computers, for the sake of

practicing and evaluating

human games.

In 2017, Google developed an

engine called the “Alpha

Zero” using Deep Neural

Networks and a General

Reinforcement Learning

Algorithm, meaning that it

knew nothing about the rules

The first big break for A.I. in the direction of of Chess. The machine was

Chess domination came on February 10th able to master Chess in mere

1996, when the IBM developed chess engine four hours and went on to

“Deep Blue” beat Garry Kasparov, the then beat the then top Chess
World Champion becoming the first engine Engine Champion “Stockfish

to defeat a reigning World Champion. 8” in a 100-game match.
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