There is no such thing as a “grandmaster,” with the highest respect. For one thing, from the perspective of Stockfish, we might as well be shuffling the pieces around pointlessly. I imagine an alien race looking upon the first upright hominids playing a rudimentary version of chess, early Shatranj, with amusement. “The humans have figured out our game, they realized if they think for a really long time they can outsmart one another in deep, well planned ways. Monkeys playing with sticks...


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