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'''Matthew Lai''',<br/>
a Canadian electrical engineer and computer scientist, and further a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_pilot private pilot] <ref>[http://matthewlai.ca/blog/?page_id=2 Piece of Mind » About]</ref>, chessplayer and computer chess programmer. He holds a B.Sc. in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical_engineering electrical engineering] from [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_British_Columbia University of British Columbia] in 2013, and a M.Sc. in advanced computing at [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_College_London Imperial College London] in 2015. Matthew Lai is primary author of the chess engine [[Brainless]] <ref>[http://cyberfish.wecheer.com/Brainless/ Brainless - Homepage]</ref> , a project from Matthew 's high school years, that has been abandoned in about 2008 when German chess master [[Wieland Belka]] and [[Pawel Koziol]] contributed to the [[Evaluation|evaluation]] to play the [[IOCSC 2010]] <ref>[http://matthewlai.ca/blog/?p=637 Piece of Mind » Blog Archive » Computer Chess Tournament?!]</ref>. His [[Artificial Intelligence|AI research]] focused on [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soccer_robot Autonomous Soccer Playing Robots] <ref>[http://ca.linkedin.com/pub/matthew-lai/1a/14/b19 Matthew Lai - LinkedIn]</ref> and, as topic of his Master's thesis <ref>[[Matthew Lai]] ('''2015'''). ''Giraffe: Using Deep Reinforcement Learning to Play Chess''. M.Sc. thesis, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_College_London Imperial College London], [http://arxiv.org/abs/1509.01549v1 arXiv:1509.01549v1]</ref>, on [[Deep Learning|deep learning]] applied to chess within his project [[Giraffe]] <ref> [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=56913 *First release* Giraffe, a new engine based on deep learning] by [[Matthew Lai]], [[CCC]], July 08, 2015</ref>, which discontinued when Matthew started his professional career at [[Google]] [[DeepMind]] in 2016 <ref>[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=59003 Death of Giraffe, but hopefully not ML in chess!] by [[Matthew Lai]], [[CCC]], January 21, 2016</ref>, soon involved in the [[AlphaZero]] project applied to chess, [[Shogi]] and [[Go]] <ref> [[David Silver]], [[Thomas Hubert]], [[Julian Schrittwieser]], [[Ioannis Antonoglou]], [[Matthew Lai]], [[Arthur Guez]], [[Marc Lanctot]], [[Laurent Sifre]], [[Dharshan Kumaran]], [[Thore Graepel]], [[Timothy Lillicrap]], [[Karen Simonyan]], [[Demis Hassabis]] ('''2017'''). ''Mastering Chess and Shogi by Self-Play with a General Reinforcement Learning Algorithm''. [https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.01815 arXiv:1712.01815]</ref>.
=Chess Engines=
* [[David Silver]], [[Thomas Hubert]], [[Julian Schrittwieser]], [[Ioannis Antonoglou]], [[Matthew Lai]], [[Arthur Guez]], [[Marc Lanctot]], [[Laurent Sifre]], [[Dharshan Kumaran]], [[Thore Graepel]], [[Timothy Lillicrap]], [[Karen Simonyan]], [[Demis Hassabis]] ('''2017'''). ''Mastering Chess and Shogi by Self-Play with a General Reinforcement Learning Algorithm''. [https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.01815 arXiv:1712.01815] » [[AlphaZero]] <ref>[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=65909 Google's AlphaGo team has been working on chess] by [[Peter Kappler]], [[CCC]], December 06, 2017</ref>
* [[David Silver]], [[Thomas Hubert]], [[Julian Schrittwieser]], [[Ioannis Antonoglou]], [[Matthew Lai]], [[Arthur Guez]], [[Marc Lanctot]], [[Laurent Sifre]], [[Dharshan Kumaran]], [[Thore Graepel]], [[Timothy Lillicrap]], [[Karen Simonyan]], [[Demis Hassabis]] ('''2018'''). ''[http://science.sciencemag.org/content/362/6419/1140 A general reinforcement learning algorithm that masters chess, shogi, and Go through self-play]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_(journal) Science], Vol. 362, No. 6419 <ref>[https://deepmind.com/blog/alphazero-shedding-new-light-grand-games-chess-shogi-and-go/ AlphaZero: Shedding new light on the grand games of chess, shogi and Go] by [[David Silver]], [[Thomas Hubert]], [[Julian Schrittwieser]] and [[Demis Hassabis]], [[DeepMind]], December 03, 2018</ref>
* [[Marc Lanctot]], [[Edward Lockhart]], [[Jean-Baptiste Lespiau]], [[Vinicius Vinícius Flores Zambaldi]], [[Satyaki Upadhyay]], [[Julien Pérolat]], [[Sriram Srinivasan]], [[Finbarr Timbers]], [[Karl Tuyls]], [[Shayegan Omidshafiei]], [[Daniel Hennes]], [[Dustin Morrill]], [[Paul Muller]], [[Timo Ewalds]], [[Ryan Faulkner]], [[János Kramár]], [[Bart De Vylder]], [[Brennan Saeta]], [[James Bradbury]], [[David Ding]], [[Sebastian Borgeaud]], [[Matthew Lai]], [[Julian Schrittwieser]], [[Thomas Anthony]], [[Edward Hughes]], [[Ivo Danihelka]], [[Jonah Ryan-Davis]] ('''2019'''). ''OpenSpiel: A Framework for Reinforcement Learning in Games''. [https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.09453 arXiv:1908.09453] <ref>[https://github.com/deepmind/open_spiel/blob/master/docs/contributing.md open_spiel/contributing.md at master · deepmind/open_spiel · GitHub]</ref>
=Forum Posts=
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=54474 FPGA chess] by [[Matthew Lai]], [[CCC]], November 26, 2014 » [[FPGA]]
==2015==
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=54865 Different eval for white/black] by [[Matthew Lai]], [[CCC]], January 05, 2015 » [[Asymmetric evaluationEvaluation]]
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=56913 *First release* Giraffe, a new engine based on deep learning] by [[Matthew Lai]], [[CCC]], July 08, 2015
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=57045 SEE Map] by [[Matthew Lai]], [[CCC]], July 20, 2015 » [[Static Exchange Evaluation]] <ref>[[Russell M. Church]], [[Kenneth W. Church]] ('''1977'''). ''Plans, Goals, and Search Strategies for the Selection of a Move in Chess''. [[Chess Skill in Man and Machine]]</ref>
=External Links=
* [httphttps://matthewlai.ca.linkedin.com/pubblog/matthew-lai/1a/14/b19 Piece of Mind] by [[Matthew Lai - LinkedIn]]* : [httphttps://matthewlai.ca/blogresume/ Piece of Mind] by [[Matthew Lai]Resume/Projects]: [httphttps://matthewlai.ca/blog/?p=637 Piece of Mind » Blog Archive » Computer Chess Tournament?!] » [[IOCSC 2010]]* [httphttps://wwwca.365chesslinkedin.com/playerspub/Matthew_Lai Matthew Lai chess games matthew- 365Chess.com]* [https:lai/1a/bitbucket.org14/waterreaction/giraffe waterreaction / Giraffe — Bitbucketb19 Matthew Lai - LinkedIn]
=References=
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