Ataraxos beats Stratego's strongest human player at about one-five-hundredth of DeepNash's compute cost
AI beats Stratego's greatest player, ending one of the last human strongholds in board games
What happened
Researchers' Ataraxos achieved an 85% effective win rate against Niemeijer, the strongest Stratego player ever, ending human dominance in the imperfect-information board game.
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