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There's an analog in machine chess. According to the research paper from 2017, AlphaZero considered ~10,000 moves per decision, 1,000x fewer than Stockfish at the time. h2h it beat Stockfish pretty badly.

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But that's not what it's saying right? The quote says grandmasters and amateurs analyze the same number of moves. I mean it would kind of make more sense how you are interpreting it but is that actually what the quote is saying?

I was responding to the commenter's intuition that GMs do actually analyze more lines. I'm saying the original article's claim checks out even for machines.

>I'm saying the original article's claim checks out even for machines.

Im not sure where the misunderstanding is.

The article says better players calculate a similar amount of moves and your anecdote shows the better player calculating a lot less.

So yeah it rebuts but the idea that GMs analyze more moves but it doesnt agree with the article, right? I guess just in the sense that its not more.

Yeah that last bit is what I was going for.

It is same, just even more overpowered. AlphaZero can also do same amount of analyze but before even need to, Stockfish already destroyed. Is like 100m race run between you and Usain Bolt. Because Bolt is so overpowering, You can just shorten it to 30m and he still beats everytime.

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