A compact AlphaZero-style chess system reaches 3,251 Elo after 2.5 days on a single GPU node

By engineering search, replay, and throughput, the 6.3-million-parameter model achieves strong play with limited compute.

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Bertil Braun
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32-million-parameter model that measured 3,251 benchmark Elo at 100,000 searches per move against a fixed-node Stockfish 13 ladder.

5 days.

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An engineered AlphaZero-style chess system achieves 3251 Elo in 2.5 days on one 8-GPU node.

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