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How to Cheat at Chess

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DeepMind defeated top-ranked StarCraft || Player

olumis — Fri, 25 Jan 2019 11:44:53 +0800

DeepMind AI thrashes human professionals at video game StarCraft II

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By Chris Stokel-Walker

Artificial intelligence has beaten humans at chess, Scrabble and Go – and now it has the better of us at real-time strategy video game StarCraft II. In two best-of-five series, DeepMind’s AI defeated two top-ranked professionals 5-0.

“This is of course an exciting moment for us,” said David Silver at DeepMind in a live stream watched by more than 55,000 people. “For the first time we saw an AI that was able to defeat a professional player.”

In StarCraft II, players have to control armies across a terrain. They have to build infrastructure, juggling short-term gain with long-term benefits. They also can’t always see the full map, so must act on hunches and intuition rather than firm action.

DeepMind created five versions of their AI, called AlphaStar, and trained them on footage of human games. The different AIs then played against each other in a league, with the leading AI accumulating the equivalent of 200 years of game experience.

With this, AlphaStar beat professional players Dario Wunsch and Grzegorz Komincz – ranked 44th and 13th in the world respectively.

“It looks like a big step forward,” says Sebastian Risi at the IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark. We don’t know how much new innovation there is, but the way it’s trained seems to be key, he says.

Processing power
AlphaStar’s success came with some caveats: the AI played only on a single map, and using a single kind of player (there are three in the game). The professionals also had to contend with playing different versions of AlphaStar from match to match.

While the AlphaStar was playing on a single graphics processing unit, a computer chip found in many gaming computers, it was trained on 16 tensor processing units hosted in the Google cloud – processing power beyond the realms of many.

“I didn’t expect anything like this,” says Niels Justesen at the IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark, “especially because previous attempts of learning StarCraft end-to-end have been very far from human level.”

Eventually, the sort of skills an AI needs for playing StarCraft could transfer into other areas. “I think StarCraft is like running a company, in particular a logistic operation,” says Julian Togelius at New York University. “It’s all about planning research and development, and to get the goods to the right place at the right time, avoiding bottlenecks.”

AlphaStar may also help professionals improve their strategies.“It is actually exciting if AI finds new ways to play a game optimally,” says Georgios Yannakakis of the University of Malta. “This is one of the reasons one builds AI after all.”

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Chess Titled Arena #10

olumis — Tue, 15 Jan 2019 18:01:18 +0800

This is a 2-hour bullet chess tournament, Lichess Titled Arena Jan. 2019, ChessNetwork provided commentary on while specifically observing World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen compete. Lichess Titled Arena Jan. 2019 is held for titled chess players only, namely Grandmasters, International Masters, FIDE Masters, National Masters etc... Magnus Carlsen played under the account "DrNykterstein". This was the 10th "Titled Arena" held by lichess.org. Its $1,000 prize pool goes to the top 5 players, with 1st - $500, 2nd - $250, 3rd - $125, 4th - $75, and 5th - $50. This tournament was played on January 5th, 2019.

For those who are curious, bullet chess stands for playing speed chess with the time control 1 minute or less. This what makes it exciting because even professional players will make all sort of blunders/mistakes/inaccuracies in time pressure. Enjoy!

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Chess Titled Arena #8

olumis — Wed, 31 Oct 2018 20:23:24 +0800

Current World Chess Champion, Grandmaster Magnus Carlsen datang lagi with his latest bullet chess revenge on lichess.org online Chess Tournament, Titled Arena #8. This was potentially his last formal chess competition before beginning a World Championship match on November 9th 2018. The event attracted more than 290+ titled players including the normal fleet of streamers and commentators.

For those who are curious, bullet chess stands for playing speed chess with the time control 1 minute or less. This what makes it exciting because even professional players will make all sort of blunders/mistakes/inaccuracies in time pressure. Enjoy!

Trivia: World Chess Championship 2018

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Titled Arena #8 commentated by Jerry AKA ChessNetwork

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Extra: Arena Kings tournament played & streamed by Grandmaster Andrew Tang AKA penguingm1

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If you missed the last Bullet Tournament featuring the current World Chess Champion, Magnus Carlsen, click here: forum.lowyat.net/index.php?showtopic=4638675

Hyper Bullet Chess Match

olumis — Fri, 24 Aug 2018 17:07:23 +0800

TGIF!

This is an online Hyper Bullet Chess Match between Grandmaster Andrew Tang vs Grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky both from USA on lichess.org. Hyper Bullet Chess is a type of chess in which each player is given only 30 seconds time constraints and both of these players are notoriously famous for their speed. Enjoy!

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Extra: If you missed the last Bullet Tournament featuring the current World Chess Champion, Magnus Carlsen, click here: forum.lowyat.net/index.php?showtopic=4638675

Chess Titled Arena #6

olumis — Thu, 16 Aug 2018 13:22:46 +0800

Current World Chess Champion, Grandmaster Magnus Carlsen datang lagi with his latest bullet chess revenge on lichess.org online Chess Tournament, Titled Arena #6. This time, he played with a new handle "damnsaltythatsport". Surprise! Surprise!. Also playing Grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky "RebeccaHarris" and Grandmaster Oleksandr Bortnyk "Night-King96". For those who are curious, bullet chess stands for playing speed chess with the time control 1 minute or less. This what makes it exciting because even professional players will make all sort of blunders/mistakes/inaccuracies in time pressure. Enjoy!

Trivia: World Chess Championship 2018

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Titled Arena #6 commentated by Jerry AKA ChessNetwork

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Extra: Titled Tuesday commentated by Grandmaster Aman Hambleton from Chessbrah

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Insane Bullet Chess Speed

olumis — Mon, 02 Jul 2018 15:39:13 +0800

Grandmaster Eric Hansen datang lagi with his latest bullet chess revenge stream. For those who are curious, bullet chess stands for playing speed chess with the time control 1 minute or less. This what makes it exciting because even professional players will make all sort of blunders/mistakes/inaccuracies in time pressure + some trash talking. Enjoy!

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Extra: NM Jerry AKA ChessNetwork playing 3 mintues Blitz Chess Tournament on lichess.org

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Titled Arena #4

olumis — Fri, 13 Apr 2018 11:35:59 +0800

Lichess Titled Arena 4 set all kinds of new records. This time around they had 218 titled participants, including 34 Grandmasters, playing bullet games against each other for 2 hours straight. For those who are curious, bullet chess stands for playing speed chess with the time control 1 minute or less. This is what makes it exciting because even professional players will make all sort of blunders/mistakes/inaccuracies in time pressure + some trash talking. Just like the previous tournament World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen is also playing with his handle DrDrunkenstein. GM Andrew Tang (CleverTacticButFail), one of the fastest bullet chess player in Lichess is also competing for the prize pool of USD3200! Watch this commentary by NM Jerry AKA ChessNetwork. Enjoy!

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Extra: IM John Bartholomew from USA recorded his participation.

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Chess Video: Titled Arena Number 3

olumis — Sat, 03 Mar 2018 11:28:15 +0800

Good afternoon people. Just wanna share this chess video for whoever into chess. This is a tournament called Titled Arena Number 3 (lichess.org) featuring currently world number one chess champion Grandmaster Magnus Carlsen playing with his handle DrDrunkenstein. Each game is one minute with no increment (1+0) and the prize is a total of USD2200. Enjoy!

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IM John Bartholomew from USA

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NM Jerry AKA ChessNetwork from USA

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