Prepare yourself, the reader, for a type of chess that you probably never even imagined could exist. It is true that it may be briefly reminiscent of the romantic style of the 19th century because there are sacrifices of material in exchange for initiative, attack, development or good harmony of the pieces. But not from the wonderful intuition that those precursor geniuses had, but with the precision of today’s computers. The result makes a deep impression on the fan and is not exempt from great beauty, which we could call cosmic.
But there is still something more important. What Google’s Deep Mind learned in 2017 with its chess (AlphaZero) and go programs (AlphaGo) was the basis of AlphaFold, the program that in 2020 managed to decipher the structure of proteins (whose combinations of amino acids are even more abundant and complex than the number of possible batches or atoms in the universe) in one of the greatest advances in history of biology. Thanks to this there are magnificent recent discoveries in the fight against cancer or the development of antidepressants. And today more than a thousand researchers take advantage of that knowledge in search of new discoveries in other fields.
