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The generator usefulness also depends on the strength level. The possibility of making an inferior move depends on the random generator.Stockfish wouldn't consider it, and discard it immediately. The difference between it with the previous move is too big (-9.99 -0.34). Not taking back the queen is a gross blunder. The new score for PxQ would have been 0.06 and it's greater than 0.00. If the generated random number is sufficient to push the PxQ score above the best score, for instance, 0.40. If the random number is too small, say, 0.10, the added score (-0.34 + 0.10 = -0.24) is still too small compared to the best score (0.00), and it'd been discarded. Stockfish generates a small positive number and add it to PxQ. Notice that without giving the move PxQ a small random boost, it'd never would be chosen because the best score (0.00) is greater than the score for PxQ (-0.34). Since this is the first move, there is nothing to do. Not taking back the queen is a gross blunder and should be avoided whenever possible. If you did anything else, I would be a queen ahead. If you did with your pawn, your pawn position would have been ruined and lead to a slightly inferior position. If you did it with your bishop, the position would have been equal. You could take my queen with your bishop or pawn. It might sound complicated but it isn't, let's do an example. Pick the move if the transformed score is the best.Generate a small random number and applied it to a multi-pv score.It does that by comparing its score with another multi-pv score. Filter out a move if it's a gross blunder.When the engine needs to make a move, it looks for all the possibilities in the multi-pv moves and choose a move with the following algorithm: Besides that, the article provides the new games played with a reasonable time control for SF as well as opening books.In strength reduction mode, Stockfish starts a multi-pv where the engine searches for more than one best move. UPDATE: in the recent article 'AlphaZero: Shedding new light on the grand games of chess, shogi and Go' the rating for Stockfish was drawn as a line at 3500. Nonetheless, winning over Stockfish is quite an achievement, no matter how handicapped it was and how much was the difference in hardware cost. There are more, but these are main points.Īnswering your question, there's no way to measure how much rating Stockfish had in a very handicapped conditions it had to run.

Stockfish level 4 elo Pc#

The hardware was quite different - an average $1k PC (Stockfish) against a bunch of specialized hardware that might cost millions and is not accessible to anyone.

Stockfish had threads=64 set, but the actual hardware had only 8 CPU cores, that effectively slowed things down quite a lot.

Time control was 1 minute/move, which throws out of the window various optimizations re: using more time thinking about difficult moves.

The Stockfish version that played agaist AlphaZero was significantly compromised in several different aspects:

Stockfish level 4 elo full#

The Stockfish Elo rating provided in the paper is the full version, thus this replication is needed.

Note that Stockfish had good 64 threads CPU and could evaluate 70 million positions/second.

So, did anyone test it? Is anyone interested in testing it? Maybe Stockfish developers, because Stockfish's pride is at stake? Or is there other way to approach the problem? Thus we could infer the Elo rating of AlphaZero and answer most questions.

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One work around is to replicate the Stockfish version that played AlphaZero, to see how strong it is compared to the full version and other engine and human. However, this leaves chess lovers with many questions like what is the true strength of AlphaZero? What is the true advantage of strategic/positional sacrifice play? Were Morphy, Tal, and others correct and Stockfish wrong? Or full version Stockfish is still the best?

counting/tactical play by brute force search. It is to test intuitive/strategic play by deep learning technique vs. This setting by DeepMind is understandable from a scientific perspective though.

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But some people were disputing its win, because Stockfish was running on weak hardware (1 GB RAM), not access to opening book, not having free time control, maybe not have endgame table base, etc. AlphaZero has defeated Stockfish with all novelties and brilliant strategic sacrifices.