Natasha Regan is a Women’s International Master from England who achieved a degree in mathematics from Cambridge University.

He has authored several highly acclaimed books on chess and has been writing the famous ‘Sadler on Books’ column for New In Chess magazine for many years. Matthew Sadler (1974) is a Grandmaster who twice won the British Championship and was awarded an individual Gold Medal at the 1996 Olympiad.

With a foreword by former World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov and an introduction by DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis. Not just in solving games, but in providing solutions for a wide variety of challenges in society. Game Changer offers intriguing insights into the opportunities and horizons of Artificial Intelligence. The story of AlphaZero has a wider impact. Both professionals and club players will improve their game by studying AlphaZero’s stunning discoveries in every field that matters: opening preparation, piece mobility, initiative, attacking techniques, long-term sacrifices and much more. Game Changer also presents a collection of lucidly explained chess games of astonishing quality. Sadler and Regan reveal its thinking process and tell the story of the human motivation and the techniques that created AlphaZero.

They also had unparalleled access to its team of developers and were offered a unique look ‘under the bonnet’ to grasp the depth and breadth of AlphaZero’s search. The selection of ten games published in December 2017 created a worldwide sensation: how was it possible to play in such a brilliant and risky style and not lose a single game against an opponent of superhuman strength?įor Game Changer, Matthew Sadler and Natasha Regan investigated more than two thousand previously unpublished games by AlphaZero. The artificial intelligence system, created by DeepMind, had been fed nothing but the rules of the Royal Game when it beat the world’s strongest chess engine in a prolonged match. It took AlphaZero only a few hours of self-learning to become the chess player that shocked the world. Garri Kasparov har skrevet et eget forord til boka. Denne imøtesette boka forteller allerede historien om det selvlærende sjakkprogrammet som har sjokkert verden med revolusjonerende resultater og sjakkpartier faktisk utviklet på timer.įorfatterne har hatt tilgang til over to tusen tidligere upubliserte partier av Alpha Zero.

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