Could a Stratego AI best human players?
About a week ago, Google's AlphaZero (henceforth called 'AZ' took on what is generally seen as the strongest chess engine with an ELO of approximately 3400, Stockfish 8 (henceforth called 'SF'). In the head to head match, AZ played 100 games against SF in which both engines had the white pieces 50 times. At the end AZ won 28 games while drawing the other 72 games against SF. Interesting detail is that during the latest chess engine competition, SF did not make it to the superfinals, despite not having lost a single game against any of the other engines ( more info ), showing that by being capable of not losing, you do not automatically win a tournament, an interesting thing to keep in mind when thinking of Stratego AI's. More info about Google's deepmind can be for example found at here . While some people argue that the match wasn't considered fair as AZ had access to better hardware and that SF didn't make use of its so called opening book and e...