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Chess engines do weird stuff
Since AlphaZero, lc0-style chess engines have been trained with RL. Specifically, you have the engine (search + model) play itself a bunch of times, and train the model to predict the outcome of the game.
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| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
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| Feb 17, 2026 | Chess engines do weird stuff by admiringly | 154 | 81 |
