Games have been provided with an entire section of their own on several online application stores and on almost every software store as well. The importance and craze of games cannot be overlooked, which is why developers all over the world keep trying to come up with better and more engrossing games.
In the world of popular board games, chess is one of the most competitive and complex games that is played all over the world. There have been several attempts to come out with strong automated programs for playing chess and competing against humans. This chapter will discuss the approach that's used by the developers at DeepMind who created Alpha Zero, a self-learning algorithm that taught itself to play chess so that it could beat the then best chess AI on the market, Stockfish 8, with a one-sided score in just 24 hours of...
