This project actually proves the point of the root comment. The community spent tons of time on tuning/training this network, and it still routinely loses to Stockfish, which runs on inferior hardware. It illustrates that:
1. Deep mind kept a lot of information about their methods undisclosed.
2. Despite all the claims of generality, the algorithm requires insane amounts of fiddling to train. Just read their blog.
3. The hype around AlphaZero crushing every other algorithm in chess is overblown. It's competitive, but not clearly superior.
Still, Kudos to people running Lela project for doing what DeepMind should have done - describing how things really work and testing in real-life conditions.
1. Deep mind kept a lot of information about their methods undisclosed.
2. Despite all the claims of generality, the algorithm requires insane amounts of fiddling to train. Just read their blog.
3. The hype around AlphaZero crushing every other algorithm in chess is overblown. It's competitive, but not clearly superior.
Still, Kudos to people running Lela project for doing what DeepMind should have done - describing how things really work and testing in real-life conditions.