How do Chess Engines work? Looking at Stockfish and AlphaZero | Oliver Zeigermann

Speaker: Oliver Zeigermann (embarc) | Game playing is a classic discipline of AI and had a major break through in the 90s when Deep Blue defeated Kasparov and arguably became the world’s best chess player. First, we will look which algorithms made that success possible and how they are still used within Stockfish, one of the leading chess engines. Here, we will cover Minimax and AlphaBeta pruning. However, the emphasis of this talk will be on Monte Carlo