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Yes, engines would almost certainly never play 2. f4. That's a different question than whether chess is solved, for which the question of interest would be "given optimal play afte…

TCEC does force different openings yes. Engines play both sides.

Here's a game from a month ago where Stockfish loses to Lc0, played during the TCEC Cup. https://lichess.org/S9AwOvWn Chess is a 2 player game of perfect, finite information, so by…

Your intuition is correct.

Latest Stockfish with all available threads and no opening book is still well beyond any human. Elo ratings get a bit silly with computers, but we're talking an Elo of well north o…

That's an extraordinary claim. What level was Stockfish and what were the settings for these training games?

Fair use is a justification for why copyright restrictions may not apply in a given scenario, not a license to apply new legal restrictions to work you do not own.

A treatment might look like "In the US, XXX are much more likely to be unemployed than are YYY. The unemployment rate is defined as the percentage of jobless people who have active…

Without delving too much into the utility of the practice, skateboarding as a past time is a rather commonly banned activity in common spaces. The issue here is not that someone is…

"Where does n come in?" I *think* this might help to answer your question for where n comes from. It helps me at least think about it. The definition of the variance of the standar…

He doesn't actually make very heavy use of the satire plank of fair use. He credits the original artists. From his own website "Does Al get permission to do his parodies? Al does g…

From reading the paper and the original paper that the data for the MTurk/Prolific samples are drawn from, this is a convenience sample of 415 humans on two platforms. Each worker …