— Kevin Lincolnchess engines are fundamentally different. AlphaZero, the engine that pioneered the “neural network” approach now incorporated into Stockfish, learned chess by playing against itself over and over. It couldn’t explain why it was making a move because it didn’t know why, at least not in the way we do: It just “understood” that more than any other move, this gave it a slightly better chance of winning the game.
Replicated under Fair Use from AI Perfected Chess. Humans Made It Unpredictable Again by Kevin Lincoln.