Questions tagged [alphazero]

When AlphaZero learned on its own that a queen has a value of 9, a pawn 1, knight 3, etc., then did it also need to learn on its own that a piece has a value? Or was it that the concept of value was baked into its code and it only had to figure out…

Following up from answers to: Understanding AlphaZero My question would be how the neural net "learns" what to do in a position it hasn't encountered. Saying the actual AZ executes an MCTS using the bias + weights from the trained neural net just…

Is there any fundamental difference (in algorithms etc.) between Alphazero training by playing against itself and when playing a match against Stockfish? Or were the match games basically treated as training game with the only diferrnce that half…