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Reminds me of the Busch-Gass Gambit in chess - something so new and mind boggling that it absolutely destroys the best chess engines in the world. Discovered through computer analysis. Insane to watch this opening played well.



>Humans have not beaten the top chess engine of the time in a “serious” game since around 2005.

https://ppqty.com/anyone-beaten-stockfish/

The qualifier "serious" is needed because GM Andrew Tang won games at hyperbullet time controls (15 seconds) against a weaker version of Stockfish.

Article is dated Oct 2023.


>it absolutely destroys the best chess engines in the world.

Citation?

I'm willing to believe that someone used the gambit to win against an engine, but in response I would've expected the engines to be modified to restore their absolute dominance against human players.

So, I would be very interested to see any evidence that this gambit continued to work against the version of the engine released after the gambit's effectiveness became widely known.


Play it for yourself against the current stockfish.




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