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Worth noting that this is no longer true:

“The world’s best chess players are neither computers nor humans but humans working together with computers.”

Interesting. Humans playing with the help of a strong chess engine are weaker than the chess engine itself? (=make more mistakes than right decisions when they leave the machine recommendation?)

Google's AlphaZero can beat all other previous chess engines, and learned chess on it's own and invented strategies that were never conceived of before:

https://deepmind.com/blog/article/alphazero-shedding-new-lig...

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