Errata: regarding the comment on the rules - the AI has no built-in domain knowledge but the basic rules of the game.

📝 The paper "AlphaZero: Shedding new light on the grand games of chess, shogi and Go" is available here:
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Kasparov’s editorial: http://science.sciencemag.org/content...

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