Sep 8, 2018 · 1 min read
It is unlikely that MCTS at playtime is why AlphaZero is so strong in chess, because it is also strong in Go where it doesn’t use MCTS (for play, they only search 4-ply deep with a simple alpha-beta tree search).
It is unlikely that MCTS at playtime is why AlphaZero is so strong in chess, because it is also strong in Go where it doesn’t use MCTS (for play, they only search 4-ply deep with a simple alpha-beta tree search).