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The news that got my attention was https://arxiv.org/html/2402.04494v1 "Grandmaster-Level Chess Without Search" and an engine using this approach exceeding 2900 on Lichess (against humans) and over 2200 against engines.

I actually started a chess channel a couple of hourse ago to help humans take advantage of this (nothing there yet https://youtube.com/@DecisiveEdgeChess ).

I have long taught my students that its possible to assess positions at a very high level with very, very little calculation, and this news hit me as "finally, evidence enough to intrigue more people that this is possible!" (My interest in Chess goes way back. I finished in the money in the U.S. Open and New York Open in the '80's, and one of my longtime friends was IM Mike Valvo, since passed, who was the arbiter for the 1996 match between Garry Kasparov and IBM's Deep Blue, and a commentator for the '97 match alongside Grandmasters Yasser Seirawan and Maurice Ashley.)




You might be interested in GM Matthew Sadler's work, he agrees with you. Here's a link:

https://www.newinchess.com/media/wysiwyg/product_pdf/9073.pd...

He's been arguing that "intuition", i.e., reading a position based on your understanding of the game and not on calculation, is a big deal.


Yep that paper is from the same team that produced the paper I linked to.

But yes the title is much more exciting - “grandmaster level chess without search”.




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