AI Ruined Chess. Now, It s Making the Game Beautiful Again | WIRED

In 2017, AlphaZero showed it could teach itself to roundly beat the best computer players at either chess, Go, or the Japanese game Shogi. Kramnik says its latest results reveal beguiling new vistas of chess to be explored, if people are willing to adopt some small changes to the established rules.

The project also showcased a more collaborative mode for the relationship between chess players and machines. Chess engines were initially built to play against humans with the goal of defeating them, says Nenad Tomaaev, a DeepMind researcher who worked on the project. Now we see a system like AlphaZero used for creative exploration in tandem with humans rather than opposed to them.

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Being a chess coach at my kids’ elementary school really taught me how boring chess could be.