1. Can a human beat a chess engine? (Yes | No)
The answer is no. Today, the highest level chess tournaments are not between humans but between chess engines. Each chess engine software editor prepares for these competitions by making their algorithms faster and requiring less CPU. In fact today, a top chess engine running on a smartphone can beat humans. In human-to-human chess competitions, the level of chess has reached very high limits of complexity. Humans now mostly train against machines.
2. Humans can estimate decisions better than machines with intuition when it comes to large volumes of data. (Yes | No)
The answer is no. The sheer CPU power of an average machine or even a smartphone can generate better results than humans with the proper algorithms.
3. Building a reinforcement learning program with a Q function...