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What's your opinion on Chess engine matches?

Do you think they're interesting to analyse and are they suitable for game analysis board?
When I was a baby chess Masters would look at computer matches to laugh.
In my teen years, chess Masters would look at computer matches to watch.
Nowadays chess Masters look at computer matches to learn.
Chess engines are boring because they play all openings,instead they should set a 12 game match where engines choose openings that thay prefer. It would be good if there is a transmission where a person( a real human person,not necessarily a strong master) explains games.
Yes these games are interesting, as these are the best chess played now. These games come closest to the truth as we know it.
Some games are long, many of these are drawn.
The won games are most interesting, particularly the wins with black.
The recent matches between Stockfish (programmed by humans) and Leela (Artificial Intelligence) have been of interest as the machines have different approaches to determining moves. Kingscrusher on youtube has selected games for analysis. His insights into the encounters are worth attention.
I am by no means any expert at chess; it would be accurate to call me a near-total newbie who at least has an okay grasp of how the pieces move. I find engine matches interesting; I especially like when a game ends up having a flashy finish, such as Stockfish's victory march checkmate against Leela:


That game likely never would've happened between two instances of Stockfish, and it also wouldn't be likely between any human player and Stockfish. Because Leela has a different approach than any human or other engine, it was able to bring out another side of what Stockfish is capable of. That's my uninformed opinion, at least.

I think Stockfish is quite likely simply the best engine of its type; because it's open-source, it has the most human knowledge and play-testing poured into it. Leela Chess Zero is interesting because it's simply fed the hard rules, then figures out the rules of thumb for itself from there; and it has become incredibly good at chess using that method. Due to the rather large amount of crowd support it gets in the form of GPU contributions and the fact that anyone can download it and use it, it very likely has better potential than AlphaZero; AlphaZero is to LeelaChess as Komodo is to Stockfish, except a more extreme case.
I see a lot of comments about Leela/l01 that I just can't agree with. First, it has the same rating as Stockfish on TCEC and it did win one recent tournament over Stockfish, Houdini etc. ... http://www.chessdom.com/leela-chess-zero-wins-the-gold-medal-in-tcec-div-4/. It's last 100 game match with Stockfish was won by Stockfish by 1 game. It's been widely praised by objective GMs. Probably Kingcrusher (as suggested above) is not the most objective source since he created Houdini. Others have mistakenly criticized it because it doesn't look ahead as many moves. Leela approach is different so in its matches against Stockfish, Stockfish is looking a lot deeper. Leela approach is to look for better more principled moved. When Alpha0) crushed Stockfish it was not looking as deeply as Stockfish. In addition, Leela has been widely praised by the world's elite GMs because it plays more like a human.

So now that we've got the misconceptions out of the way IMO Leela is currently by far and a way the best chess software. Other engines' approach to beating you is to simply out calculate you. To a lessor extent, Leela can out calculate as well -- after all it's a chess engine and that's what chess engines do to humans but Leela does something that other chess engines don't do. It plays human-like plans that can teach you how to play a position. In contrast, other engines simply play the most well calculated move to 20 or more moves deep. In most positions without clear tactics, GMs can at best look ahead 12 moves so no matter how much you study you're never going to play like Stockfish or Leela but you can learn more from Leela. I would suggest Peter Svidler's video on youtube where he goes over some of the Alpha0 games with Stockfish. As he explains, it's not that Alpha0 is beating Stockfish, it's the WAY it is beating Stockfish that is the important takeaway.

Finally, your computer type determines whether Stockfish or Leela will play better on your computer. If you have an 8 core i7 bios with SSD and low end intel graphics card then Stockfish will be better. In contrast, if you have an i5 with a high end graphics card with lots of memory that Leela will crush.

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