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3 statements across 2 episodes · 1 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Apr 25, 2023 by Noam Brown · across every show →

Everything said about poker, oldest first

Apr 25, 2023 neutral
Assertion Supported
Monte Carlo Tree Search fails in imperfect-information games like poker
“And that planning algorithm that's used in AlphaGo, Monte Carlo Tree Search, is very domain specific. I think people don't appreciate just how domain specific it is because it works in chess, it works in Go, and these have been like the classic domains that pe…”
Noam Brown Apr 25, 2023 ▶ 34:52 No Priors Ep. 1 | With Noam Brown, Research Scientist at Meta
Apr 25, 2023 neutral
Insight
Poker is essentially high-dimensional chess over action probabilities
“I kind of describe poker as essentially high dimensional chess. It's chess. It's like chess where you have to reason about like a probability distribution over actions instead of just like discrete actions.”
Noam Brown Apr 25, 2023 ▶ 58:33 No Priors Ep. 1 | With Noam Brown, Research Scientist at Meta
Aug 13, 2026 positive
Disclosure
Chess.com launched Gambit to bring chess-style skill ratings to poker
“We recently launched gambit at gambit.com, which is our poker site and you can play gambit on your phone as well, but we're doing poker in a different way too. We're bringing the chess playbook, which is like poker for ratings.”
Erik Allebest Aug 13, 2026 ▶ 34:03 How Chess.com Became the World’s Biggest Chess Community with CEO Erik Allebest
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