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What does it matter if you can see which moves are best if you can't understand it?
by segmondy 6d ago
What does it matter if you can see which moves are best if you can't understand it?
- gpm 6d ago99.5% of the time you can understand it (percentage varies with rating).
- matsemann 6d agoYou just try it yourself and go down the different lines. "Okay, Stockfish suggests this, but I wanted to do that, let's try my idea, oh, I didn't think of that response to my move". Etc., play along some lines, think about them. Sometimes it's obvious, other times it just sets up something far in the future you must be a grandmaster to see the subtlety of.
- mikepurvis 6d agoThe Square One Chess channel on youtube turns this kind of exploration/commentary into quite digestible content, though the thumbnails are, like everything else these days, a little clickbaity. It's been fun viewing for me and my chess-interested 9-year-old.
- azakai 6d agoChessNetwork on YouTube also does a great job with this: analysis of interesting games, using Stockfish as a tool along the way.
- stillpointlab 6d agoFor some reason this question reminds me of all of the drama about Navier-Stokes from the last few days. Tangential to the ethical questions are tons of examples where in history when word gets out about a solution to a problem, not even the solution itself just rumors that there is a solution, suddenly competing solutions appear. So maybe it matters like that? Just knowing that an oracle like stockfish is saying "this is the best move" may trigger pathways in your brain that promote understanding?
- IncreasePosts 6d agoBecause then you explore the line and try to learn what is so good about the move
- crystaln 6d agoStockfish has created entirely new lines in chess which people incorporate into their play. For instance an early pawn push to h4 is now common among chess pros. It's value was not recognized before Stockfish.
- EvgeniyZh 5d agoh4 push was AlphaZero/Leela thing wasn't it?