Magnus Carlsen recently admitted that he had “no chance” against modern chess engines, even on his phone. Speaking on the Joe Rogan experience, the Norwegian Grandmaster of Chess has shared ideas on the engines fueled by AI, an old victory against a lower chess program, and why he avoids playing against them.
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Grandmaster Magnus Carlsen failures, widely considered one of the greatest players in the history of the game, recently admitted that even he has no chance against modern chess engines. The five -time world champion recently appeared in Joe Rogan’s YouTube show where he addressed various subjects. One of the things he talked about in the show was how much of the chess engines based on the neural network are powerful.
On The Joe Rogan experienceThe animator asked Carlsen, Joe Rogan if he could defeat his phone in the process of the hardest chess.
“I have no chance against my phone,” admitted Carlsen. The Grand Master Norwegian underlined how far the chess engines have arrived, which makes almost impossible for human players to compete.
Carlsen shares an interesting anecdote on chess engines
Magnus Carlsen shared an interesting anecdote on a past experience where he managed to defeat a chess program built by a university student.
“In fact, once, I played in a business simul, and there was this guy who said:” I built a chess program in my university class. Can I let it play against you instead? And I said to myself: “Yeah, of course, why not?” “”
Carlsen revealed that he had managed to win convincingly using a unique strategy called “anti-ruling failures”.
“I beat it quite easily because I played a kind of anti-computer failure, where I just closed the position as much as possible and I gave it as few possibilities possible to outdo myself. In this way, it has become a purely strategic game. This does not work against very strong engines, but it can work against the weakest. »»
Carlsen reveals why he does not play against the engines
Carlsen then highlighted the vast improvement of chess engines over the years. He quoted a recent match between an unnamed greatmaster and Leela Chess Zero, one of the most strong neural networks.
“There was a great master who recently played a match against Leela, who is the best neural network engine at the moment. They were playing classic chess and he started with a handicap as a knight. They played a 10 game match and he won 5.5 to 4.5. »»
Carlsen admitted that he rarely played against chess engines because of their overwhelming force, but recognized their value as training tools.
“I rarely play against the engines because they just make me feel so stupid and useless. So, I consider them more as a tool than anything else. »»
