Game Changer

This book is about Alpha Zero, a computer program to play chess. The program was just given the rules of chess. Then it learned how to win by playing tons of games against itself. It kept getting smarter until it could crush the other chess computer programs out there. Namely, it took over Stockfish as being the best.

There are some themes for this program. It is aggressive in attacking the opponents king. It does not seem to have a known opening playbook like other programs and humans use.It uses sacrifices liberally. There were a lot of games shown explaining details about how Alpha Zero acts in assorted scenarios.

There were also comparisons of like chess games between grand masters of chess.