Anyway, Carlsen takes a 1-0 lead in the shootout.
It was basically all over after that wasn't it?
My mind has been blown apart in the last 24 hours reading , and watching one or two games on youtube about AlphaZero - the new chess supercomputer.
All of this shit goes WAAAY over my head, but this AlphaZero thing goes beyond all human comprehension, and takes science into the realms of art and back again. It played god knows how many games against the top chess program 'Stockfish' and took it to the cleaners.
Stockfish was programmed by humans, and had 1000's of games played by the top players pumped into its database. To put things into perspective... you can download a chess app onto your phone and you can basically be up against Deep Blue - the computer programe that beat Kasparov in 1997. Now, in 2018, we have reached another dimension with AlphaZero.
The only thing that was pumped into AlphaZero was the basic rules of chess. No tactics, no gambits... nothing, and after 4 hours of playing with itself, it came up with devestating poetry. No human that plays with itself for that long can register results like that.
4 hours. 600 years we've spent trying to fathom this game and it blows your head off in a morning. Incredible.
A book is coming out in January about it all... but this is a taster of what it can do:
https://www.youtube.com/v/bo5plUo86BU