Revolutionize Your Chess Game: Learn with Neural Networks
What you'll learn
- Ability to understand the concept of "installations" in chess and their practical application in improving gameplay
- Ability to evaluate the accumulation of advantages versus the accumulation of installations
- Ability to apply the principle of making positions "easy to play" in human chess
- Ability to incorporate installation of long-term improvements into your chess strategy
- Ability to recognize and leverage the strengths and weaknesses of neural networks in chess.
- Ability to appreciate the strengths and limitations of traditional chess engines
- Ability to critically analyze the differences between computers and humans in playing chess
- Ability to comprehend how traditional computer chess programs work
- Ability to understand why Monte Carlo Tree Search is an excellent choice for Neural Networks.
- Ability to use a simplified robot metaphor to understand the workings of AlphaZero
- Ability to explore how AlphaZero trains and improves its chess play
- Ability to analyze opposite colored bishop endgames and develop effective strategies
- Ability to navigate interesting material imbalances during gameplay.
- Ability to apply the principles of the Evans Gambit and Queens Indian Defence - Polugaevsky gambit
- Ability to understand and employ the tactics of attacking chess with pawn sacrifices
- Ability to appreciate the power of the bishop pair "installation."
- Ability to install opponent's bad bishop blocked in by its own pawns
- Ability to develop an advanced pawn center in their games
- Ability to manage and utilize passed pawns, especially connected passed pawns
- Ability to install "Alekhine's gun" and use it effectively
- Ability to exploit backward pawn weaknesses in their opponent's positions
- Ability to install a Bishop without a counterpart
- Ability to manage and use outposts effectively in their games
- Ability to install and exploit thorn pawn installations
- Ability to use prophylaxis to prevent positional plans of the opponent
- Ability to implement thematic pawn breaks
- Ability to employ positional gambits for pressure on both sides of the board
- Ability to install a "Battering ram" to weaken an opponent's King
- Ability to execute opposite side castling attacking chess.
- Ability to exploit the backward d6 pawn weakness installation
- Ability to create and manage an outpost "installation."
- Ability to create and use passed pawn "installation."
- Ability to understand and exploit the limitations of Neural Nets
- Ability to analyze and learn from AlphaZero's fascinating losses
- Ability to comprehend and apply the concepts of "restrain, blockade, and destroy" patterns
- Ability to master the tactics of French Defence with AlphaZero as white
- Ability to apply powerful exchange sacrifices to install weak pawns
- Ability to use positional authority at the cost of material to install domination
- Ability to neutralize dynamic play to head towards the endgame
- Ability to learn from Stockfish 16 beta vs Lc0 games
Requirements
- Know how the chess pieces move
Description
Welcome to 'Revolutionizing Chess Tactics and Strategy with Neural Networks.' This extensive course will introduce you to the exciting intersection of neural networks and chess, emphasizing the revolutionary AI engine, AlphaZero. Departing from traditional rule-based chess engines, AlphaZero uses neural networks to perceive the game, reshaping our understanding of chess tactics and strategies. This course is your ticket to discovering these unique insights and methodologies.
Here's what you can expect to learn:
Basics of Neural Networks and their application to chess: Grasp how these AI engines revolutionize traditional chess strategies with a unique learning-based approach.
Handpicked AlphaZero game examples: Experience a profound shift in perspective as you discover the surprising, yet deeply insightful moves analyzed by AlphaZero.
Detailed Game Analysis: A thorough, step-by-step explanation of AlphaZero's strategic and tactical decisions, helping you understand the neural network's 'thinking process.'
Applying AlphaZero Insights: Learn to integrate the knowledge gleaned from AlphaZero's analysis into your games to enhance your intuition, positional understanding, tactical sharpness, and endgame skills.
By studying this course, you'll receive a refreshing viewpoint on chess. Following the guidance of AlphaZero, we'll navigate the uncharted territories of the 64 squares, revealing profound concepts and strategies often overlooked in traditional chess teaching.
The innovative playstyle of AlphaZero, frequently described as 'human-like,' allows us to relate more directly to its decisions. This connection can make the concepts easier to comprehend and apply in your games, regardless of your background in computer science or artificial intelligence.
This course is suitable for chess enthusiasts across all skill levels. Whether you're a beginner seeking a novel perspective on chess understanding, an intermediate player aiming to enhance your strategic and tactical knowledge, or a seasoned player or coach in search of new inspiration, this course has much to offer.
Embark on this thrilling journey through the realm of neural network chess, and prepare to perceive the royal game in a whole new light!
Who this course is for:
- Beginner to Advanced chess players
Instructor
- 4.6 Instructor Rating
- 2,763 Reviews
- 13,787 Students
- 33 Courses
Tryfon Gavriel, also known as "Kingscrusher" on the Internet. I am a FIDE Candidate Master (CM), and British Regional Chess Master, and run a popular Youtube channel for many years with over 114k+ Subs as of 2021 and a Silver Button Award.
I have done many shows on commercial chess servers. I am also the Webmaster of the correspondence-style chess server Chessworld which emphasizes game quality and research.
Playing experience
Over 35 years of playing activity both online and offline. Peak ICC blitz rating of 2625 (18-Jun-1999). Peak ICC 5 min auto-pairing of 2383 (29-Jun 2012). ECF Grading peak classical: 212 (A) ECF. Peak Rapid rating: 217 (C).
Lichess marathon top 10 finishers in 4 marathons so far. Top 50 finisher in 8 marathons so far. Top 100 finisher in 4 marathons so far. And top 500 in 2 marathons so far. Won quite a few tournaments at lichess - in fact giving me 3rd rank overall behind Lance5500 and papasi in a recent detailed statistical blog analysis titled "Lichess Marathon Statistics".
One of my earliest Over-the-board achievements in Chess was winning the Lloyds Under 18 national UK tournament in 1989. My trophy was awarded to me by Grandmaster and Ph.D. Mathematician Dr John Nunn.
Teaching experience
I have done teaching in Schools and also have done teaching online with several Lichess students on a regular basis, and have a very good coaching rating at lichess.
Other experiences
Played twice in the main British Chess championship. Many of my Youtube viewers claim big rating increases after watching my videos.
Best skills
I particularly love attacking chess, chess tactics, and combinations, and it is probably no accident that my "Complete Guide to Chess Tactics" has been a best-seller shortly after its release here at Udemy.
In general, I will try and give you greater enthusiasm for the game and in particular the dynamic attacking, aggressive tactical aspects of playing chess. My favorite heroes are mainly Attacking style tactical players: Paul Morphy, Alexander Alekhine, Mikhail Tal, Bobby Fischer, and Garry Kasparov. if you want to be a dynamic aggressive attacking style player, I may be able to encourage you and find you relevant resources on that path. The dynamic aggressive attacking players were particularly strong tactically and would often trade off pawn structure neatness and material to try and checkmate the opponent's kings. Checkmate does win the game :) They were masters of finishing combinations naturally as they sought to reduce the king's safety of the opponent in various ways including bringing the King out for often beautiful mating combinations.
Chess Openings
In terms of concrete openings to make use of potentially teaching here at Udemy through courses. I like King-Attacking aggressive openings even with the black pieces like the King's Indian Defence to 1.d4 which my heroes Fischer, Kasparov, and Tal made use of extensively.
As White, I sometimes like Solid openings on such as the London System. I also like provocative openings like the Knight's Tango systems to encourage weaknesses from opponents.
I am also at faster time controls especially, particularly fond of aggressive openings and gambits. For example, the Smith-Morra Gambit vs the Sicilian Defence, and other gambits can be used aggressively even with the black pieces such as the Albin Counter Gambit. Gambits vary of course in soundness and it is important to teach what "ticks many boxes" for use in various time controls. Also, I like surprising opponents with openings such as the Nimzo-Larsen attack, the King's Indian Attack, The London System, and Queen's Knight attack system 1. Nc3, all of which I have courses for here at Udemy.
In the search for the ideal courses to provide you, I like to search within myself for my core strengths and passions within the passion of Chess.
I truly hope you enjoy my courses and they improve your chess and your enjoyment of chess generally - and life generally :)