![]() And then you think if it’s the best if one started quietly. Also, some of its openings were quite quiet. We were sort of amazed to see that some of the games followed exactly the same opening theory as some of the current opening trends. Would AlphaZero like these kinds of plans or would it be pushing its central pawns or would it do something completely different? Would it do things similarly or differently from us? There was a time when people wouldn’t be fianchettoing their bishops. NR: You also think about how chess developed. There are questions like: which openings did it choose or are the openings that we play today the best?… you know, stuff like that. That’s one thing, I think, that people find very fascinating. Playing itself and working it all out, it came up with lots of ideas. It’s amazing on several levels because, in nine hours, it taught itself, basically going through all human chess experience in nine hours. And then we really thought that there was a wonderful book in this.īesides, as you know, there is also the whole story about AlphaZero teaching itself. When I went through the games, I really thought there were so many nice themes, so many chess ideas that could be brought out - not complicated variations but big chunks like the way it attacks, the way it builds up attacks. The first thing that we were asked to do was to look through some of the new games of AlphaZero and pick out twenty good ones for DeepMind’s paper that was to be published in December 2018. MS: Already, in the ten games that were released, you sort of felt that there were a number of patterns in the way of play that you could bring out and then explain to people in a normal way, without needing to give variations. In this book, we were thinking of what we could get out of these games if there will be anything interesting. Our last book was a very thematic book about how the opening choices of players change as they grow older. The question was if we would be able to find themes. NR: Yes, and he asked if we would be able to get interesting things out of it. Matthew Sadler: I said it would be a lot of work (laughs). And when he was talking about the games, I suggested that we should do a book. ![]() Matthew, of course, when he saw the games, was very excited about them. That’s how the project was born.ĪP: Which one of you came up with the idea of writing the book first? And then, he liked it he thought it would be a good idea to have the book. ![]() He said ‘I am not sure yet’ and went away with the book. So, we gave him the idea, showed him our previous book, and asked if he would like a similar thing on AlphaZero. When he was a kid, he was a very strong chess player and ranked very high in the junior rankings. Matthew and I had both known Demis Hassabis, the CEO of DeepMind. We wanted to do a mixture of the chess analysis and the human interest behind AlphaZero by interviewing the team and showing their story. So, we thought, we could do the same type of analysis as we had done in Chess for Life for AlphaZero. We were in the analysis room where they were showing these. Everybody at the tournament was talking about it that was the big thing. And then, the news came out that there was this paper. We were watching at the London Chess Classic, at the time. It was the first time we had heard of it. We then heard in December 2017 about AlphaZero. It was a popular book, especially in England. We did a mixture of interviews and chess analysis in that book. We had worked together on Chess for Life and we’d written a nice book about ten players. Still no ChessBase Account? learn more > The ultimate chess experience every day, Pla圜 welcomes 20,000 chess players from all around the world – from beginner to grandmaster.Īditya Pai: What made you take up this project? Did your previous book, Chess for Life play a role?.Memorize it easily move by move by playing against the variation trainer. Still no ChessBase Account? learn more > Learn openings the right way! Build and maintain your repertoire.Still no ChessBase Account? learn more > Real Fun against a Chess Program! Play, analyze and train online against Fritz. ![]() Top authors like Daniel King, Lawrence Trent and Rustam Kasimdzhanov Still no ChessBase Account? learn more > Thousands of hours of high class video training.Still no ChessBase Account? learn more > Sac, sac, mate! Solve tactical positions of your playing strength.Store your games, training material and opening repertoire in the cloud. Still no ChessBase Account? learn more > My Games – Access your games from everywhere.Still no ChessBase Account? learn more > 8 million games online! Updated weekly, our definitive database has all the latest games.
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