{"id":74246,"date":"2017-12-07T13:22:52","date_gmt":"2017-12-07T21:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/alphazero-annihilates-worlds-best-chess-bot-after-just-four-hours-of-practicing"},"modified":"2017-12-11T18:01:40","modified_gmt":"2017-12-12T02:01:40","slug":"alphazero-annihilates-worlds-best-chess-bot-after-just-four-hours-of-practicing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/alphazero-annihilates-worlds-best-chess-bot-after-just-four-hours-of-practicing","title":{"rendered":"AlphaZero Annihilates World\u2019s Best Chess Bot After Just Four Hours of Practicing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/alphazero-annihilates-worlds-best-chess-bot-after-just-four-hours-of-practicing2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Awesome!<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A few months after demonstrating its dominance over the game of Go, DeepMind\u2019s AlphaZero AI has trounced the world\u2019s top-ranked chess engine\u2014and it did so without any prior knowledge of the game and after just four hours of self-training.<\/p>\n<p>AlphaZero is now the most dominant chess playing entity on the planet. In a one-on-one tournament against Stockfish 8, the reigning computer chess champion, the DeepMind-built system didn\u2019t lose a single game, winning or drawing all of the 100 matches played.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/alphazero-annihilates-world-s-best-chess-bot-after-just-1821081928\">https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/alphazero-annihilates-world-s-best-chess...1821081928<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Awesome! A few months after demonstrating its dominance over the game of Go, DeepMind\u2019s AlphaZero AI has trounced the world\u2019s top-ranked chess engine\u2014and it did so without any prior knowledge of the game and after just four hours of self-training. AlphaZero is now the most dominant chess playing entity on the planet. In a one-on-one [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":391,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1509,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/391"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74246"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74410,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74246\/revisions\/74410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}