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Andy Trattner makes a case that AlphaZero and Magnus Carlsen dominate chess for the same reason – neither plays it the way most people think chess works. Both operate through deep structural pattern recognition rather than brute-force calculation, treating positions more like language than logic puzzles. The piece draws on AlphaGo’s legacy and contrasts Carlsen’s intuitive style with Hikaru Nakamura’s more tactical approach to illustrate the gap. Chess has quietly become one of the more productive analogies for explaining how modern AI systems generalize, and Trattner’s framing lands closer to cognitive science than to typical AI hype. The underlying argument – that fun and curiosity drive mastery more than discipline – applies well beyond the board.
