http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2017/...alphazero/

Hundreds of years of chess knowledge was learned and then surpassed by Google DeepMind’s artificial intelligence algorithm in just four hours, it has emerged.

The astonishing programme AlphaZero quickly mastered the ancient game, before coming up with completely new strategies, which are now being analysed by grandmasters.

David Kramaley, who runs chess education site Chessable, added : “We now know who our new overlord is.

“The games AlphaZero played show it can calculate some incredibly creative positional bombs, the depth of which are far beyond anything humans or chess computers have come up with.

“It will no doubt revolutionise the game, but think about how this could be applied outside chess. This algorithm could run cities, continents, universes.”

The DeepMind team eventually want to use the algorithm to solve big health problems. They believe that the programme could come up with cures for major illness in a matter of days or weeks, which would have taken humans hundreds of years to find.

The company has already begun using AlphaZero to study protein folding and has promised it will soon publish new findings.

Misfolded proteins are responsible for many devastating diseases, including Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and cystic fibrosis.

the games are posted up on chess.com if anyone's interested. some really beautiful games. i recommend No. 5 and No. 9.

I could still beat it by flipping the board