A Chess Engine Gives ‘Two Pawn Odds’ to a Human

November 20, 2020 ArinaSapglype Personalities, Contemporary Masters

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Komodo is the 2019 World Computer Chess Champion chess engine, and it’s latest update “Dragon” adds NNUE (Efficiently Updatable Neural Networks) for the even deeper positional understanding displayed by AlphaZero and Leela Chess Zero. With 2 pawns odds, can Hikaru stand as humanity’s last hope?

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