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AlphaZero ha imparato gli scacchi da zero in quattro ore e ha schiacciato Stockfish, il precedente re degli scacchi al computer. La fine dell'era umana contro macchina.

Background

AlphaZero learned chess from scratch in roughly four hours of self-play and subsequently defeated Stockfish—the prior world-champion chess engine—by a decisive margin, marking the effective end of the human-versus-engine era in chess. This breakthrough was first documented in the peer-reviewed journal Science (Enriched May 9, 2026). The approach relies on deep reinforcement learning where the AI iteratively plays millions of games against itself, gradually refining evaluation functions and move selection through trial-and-error feedback. No human chess knowledge or opening books were supplied; the model learned entirely via self-generated experience, converging on a superhuman evaluation of board positions and move sequences. Subsequent analyses from the AI research community have corroborated AlphaZero’s performance across a broad suite of test conditions, reaffirming that the system’s play exceeds the strongest traditional chess engines and, by extension, the strongest human grandmasters.