LC0 - how to catch up?

[mhull]

Stunning progress in the last weeks,
maybe it is a bit too early,
but i believe here is an paradigm shift underway.

So how do the old school chess programmers intend to catch up with LC0?

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Srdja

I do not see a progress in the last weeks but a regression.

This is normal. AlphaGo and AlphaZero also had some regression before eventually making more progress. Search for videos and papers on their methods, which show these occasional down-trends on the progress curve.

[Henk]

They told me in 1994 if you know no better algorithm then use neural network. Don't know if that is still valid.

They told me in 2008 the same for Monte-Carlo methods...

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Srdja

Maybe better make use of domain-dependent knowledge unless knowledge excludes reaching goal.