In the above position, Black’s a-pawn looks suspiciously weak but AlphaZero is apparently quite content to allow the pawn to be captured as gains time to accelerate its own attack on the kingside. What isn’t so common is casting when one has already moved one of the key defensive pawns, as it creates an obvious weakness which should make the opponent’s attack faster.
It is relatively common for attacking players to castle on opposite sides of the board, with the idea of unleashing respective all-out attacks on the kings. Every page is instructive and written at a very accessible level.įor this concluding blog I put this to test and by opening the book at random I found this excellent demonstration of attacking skill. The book could be read cover-to-cover but will prove beneficial if one simply picks pages at random. Today we conclude our coverage of this very important new book, which is enabling chess players of all ages and abilities to drastically reassess the way in which they play chess.ĪlphaZero, developed by DeepMind at Google HQ in London, taught itself how to play chess having ‘been fed nothing but the rules of the Royal Game.’Īward-winning authors Matthew Sadler and Natasha Regan proved to be the perfect team to write about AlphaZero and their book is absolutely packed with extraordinary and inspirational material.
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