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Matthew Lai ^[1]

Matthew Lai,
a Canadian electrical engineer and computer scientist, and further a private pilot ^[2], chessplayer and computer chess programmer. He holds a B.Sc. in electrical engineering from University of British Columbia in 2013, and a M.Sc. in advanced computing at Imperial College London in 2015. Matthew Lai is primary author of the chess engine Brainless ^[3] , 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 to play the IOCSC 2010 ^[4]. His AI research focused on Autonomous Soccer Playing Robots ^[5] and, as topic of his Master's thesis ^[6], on deep learning applied to chess within his project Giraffe ^[7], which discontinued when Matthew started his professional career at Google DeepMind in 2016 ^[8], soon involved in the AlphaZero project applied to chess, Shogi and Go ^[9].

Chess Engines

Selected Publications

Matthew Lai (2015). Giraffe: Using Deep Reinforcement Learning to Play Chess. M.Sc. thesis, Imperial College London, arXiv:1509.01549v1
David Silver, Julian Schrittwieser, Karen Simonyan, Ioannis Antonoglou, Aja Huang, Arthur Guez, Thomas Hubert, Lucas Baker, Matthew Lai, Adrian Bolton, Yutian Chen, Timothy Lillicrap, Fan Hui, Laurent Sifre, George van den Driessche, Thore Graepel, Demis Hassabis (2017). Mastering the game of Go without human knowledge. Nature, Vol. 550 ^[10] » AlphaGo
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. arXiv:1712.01815 » AlphaZero ^[11]
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). A general reinforcement learning algorithm that masters chess, shogi, and Go through self-play. Science, Vol. 362, No. 6419 ^[12]
Marc Lanctot, Edward Lockhart, Jean-Baptiste Lespiau, 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. arXiv:1908.09453 ^[13]

Forum Posts

2008

Re: resources on how to write an eval function? by cyberfish, March 14, 2008
fail soft vs fail hard by cyberfish, CCC, November 19, 2008 » Fail-Hard, Fail-Soft
Crafty - no analysis output near mate? by cyberfish, December 03, 2008 » Crafty

2014

Using bitboards to store move lists by Matthew Lai, CCC, August 22, 2014
Memory usage in make/unmake vs logic complexity by Matthew Lai, CCC, August 30, 2014 » Copy-Make, Unmake Move
FPGA chess by Matthew Lai, CCC, November 26, 2014 » FPGA

2015

Different eval for white/black by Matthew Lai, CCC, January 05, 2015 » Asymmetric Evaluation
*First release* Giraffe, a new engine based on deep learning by Matthew Lai, CCC, July 08, 2015
SEE Map by Matthew Lai, CCC, July 20, 2015 » Static Exchange Evaluation ^[14]
Time assignment to children by Matthew Lai, CCC, July 26, 2015
Giraffe 20150801 by Matthew Lai, CCC, August 01, 2015
Giraffe dissertation, and now open source by Matthew Lai, CCC, September 08, 2015

2016

Death of Giraffe, but hopefully not ML in chess! by Matthew Lai, CCC, January 21, 2016
Removing Q-search by Matthew Lai, CCC, September 02, 2016
Searching using slow eval with tactical verification by Matthew Lai, CCC, September 06, 2016
Beginner's guide to graphical profiling by Matthew Lai, CCC, September 10, 2016 » Profiling, Giraffe
SAN test position by Matthew Lai, CCC, September 11, 2016 » SAN
Best move statistics by Matthew Lai, CCC, September 12, 2016 » Move Ordering
Searching worse moves first by Matthew Lai, CCC, September 14, 2016 » Move Ordering
What do you do with NUMA? by Matthew Lai, CCC, September 19, 2016 » NUMA

2018

Re: Alphazero news by Matthew Lai, CCC, December 07, 2018

Re: Alphazero news by Matthew Lai, CCC, December 07, 2018

Re: Alphazero news by Matthew Lai, CCC, December 07, 2018 » Giraffe

External Links

Piece of Mind by Matthew Lai

Matthew Lai Resume/Projects

Piece of Mind » Blog Archive » Computer Chess Tournament?! » IOCSC 2010

Matthew Lai - LinkedIn

References

↑ New Private Pilot: Matthew Lai | AeroDynamic Aviation, September 2, 2012
↑ Piece of Mind » About
↑ Brainless - Homepage
↑ Piece of Mind » Blog Archive » Computer Chess Tournament?!
↑ Matthew Lai - LinkedIn
↑ Matthew Lai (2015). Giraffe: Using Deep Reinforcement Learning to Play Chess. M.Sc. thesis, Imperial College London, arXiv:1509.01549v1
↑ *First release* Giraffe, a new engine based on deep learning by Matthew Lai, CCC, July 08, 2015
↑ Death of Giraffe, but hopefully not ML in chess! by Matthew Lai, CCC, January 21, 2016
↑ 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. arXiv:1712.01815
↑ AlphaGo Zero: Learning from scratch by Demis Hassabis and David Silver, DeepMind, October 18, 2017
↑ Google's AlphaGo team has been working on chess by Peter Kappler, CCC, December 06, 2017
↑ 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
↑ open_spiel/contributing.md at master · deepmind/open_spiel · GitHub
↑ 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

Up one Level

[1] New Private Pilot: Matthew Lai | AeroDynamic Aviation, September 2, 2012

[2] Piece of Mind » About

[3] Brainless - Homepage

[4] Piece of Mind » Blog Archive » Computer Chess Tournament?!

[5] Matthew Lai - LinkedIn

[6] Matthew Lai (2015). Giraffe: Using Deep Reinforcement Learning to Play Chess. M.Sc. thesis, Imperial College London, arXiv:1509.01549v1

[7] *First release* Giraffe, a new engine based on deep learning by Matthew Lai, CCC, July 08, 2015

[8] Death of Giraffe, but hopefully not ML in chess! by Matthew Lai, CCC, January 21, 2016

[9] 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. arXiv:1712.01815

[10] AlphaGo Zero: Learning from scratch by Demis Hassabis and David Silver, DeepMind, October 18, 2017

[11] Google's AlphaGo team has been working on chess by Peter Kappler, CCC, December 06, 2017

[12] 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

[13] _spiel/contributing.md at master · deepmind/open_spiel · GitHub

[14] 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

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-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>.
+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>.
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 * [[David Silver]], [[Julian Schrittwieser]], [[Karen Simonyan]], [[Ioannis Antonoglou]], [[Shih-Chieh Huang|Aja Huang]], [[Arthur Guez]], [[Thomas Hubert]], [[Lucas Baker]], [[Matthew Lai]], [[Adrian Bolton]], [[Yutian Chen]], [[Timothy Lillicrap]], [[Fan Hui]], [[Laurent Sifre]], [[George van den Driessche]], [[Thore Graepel]], [[Demis Hassabis]] ('''2017'''). ''[https://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v550/n7676/full/nature24270.html Mastering the game of Go without human knowledge]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nature_%28journal%29 Nature], Vol. 550 <ref>[https://deepmind.com/blog/alphago-zero-learning-scratch/ AlphaGo Zero: Learning from scratch] by [[Demis Hassabis]] and [[David Silver]], [[DeepMind]], October 18, 2017</ref> » [[AlphaGo]]
 * [[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]], [[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=
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 * [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 evaluation]]
+* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=54865 Different eval for white/black] by [[Matthew Lai]], [[CCC]], January 05, 2015 » [[Asymmetric Evaluation]]
 * [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>
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 * [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=61420 Searching worse moves first] by [[Matthew Lai]], [[CCC]], September 14, 2016 » [[Move Ordering]]
 * [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=61472 What do you do with NUMA?] by [[Matthew Lai]], [[CCC]], September 19, 2016 » [[NUMA]]
+==2018==
+* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=69175&start=25 Re: Alphazero news] by [[Matthew Lai]], [[CCC]], December 07, 2018
+: [http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=69175&start=32 Re: Alphazero news] by [[Matthew Lai]], [[CCC]], December 07, 2018
+: [http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=69175&start=60 Re: Alphazero news] by [[Matthew Lai]], [[CCC]], December 07, 2018
+: [http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=69175&start=64 Re: Alphazero news] by [[Matthew Lai]], [[CCC]], December 07, 2018
+: [http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=69175&start=72 Re: Alphazero news] by [[Matthew Lai]], [[CCC]], December 07, 2018
+: [http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=69175&start=82 Re: Alphazero news] by [[Matthew Lai]], [[CCC]], December 07, 2018
+: [http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=69175&start=86 Re: Alphazero news] by [[Matthew Lai]], [[CCC]], December 07, 2018 » [[Giraffe]]
 =External Links=
-* [http://ca.linkedin.com/pub/matthew-lai/1a/14/b19 Matthew Lai - LinkedIn]
+* [https://matthewlai.ca/blog/ Piece of Mind] by [[Matthew Lai]]
-* [http://matthewlai.ca/blog/ Piece of Mind] by [[Matthew Lai]]
+: [https://matthewlai.ca/resume/ Matthew Lai Resume/Projects]
-: [http://matthewlai.ca/blog/?p=637 Piece of Mind » Blog Archive » Computer Chess Tournament?!] » [[IOCSC 2010]]
+: [https://matthewlai.ca/blog/?p=637 Piece of Mind » Blog Archive » Computer Chess Tournament?!] » [[IOCSC 2010]]
-* [http://www.365chess.com/players/Matthew_Lai Matthew Lai chess games - 365Chess.com]
+* [https://ca.linkedin.com/pub/matthew-lai/1a/14/b19 Matthew Lai - LinkedIn]
-* [https://bitbucket.org/waterreaction/giraffe waterreaction / Giraffe — Bitbucket]
 =References=
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+[[Category:Chess Programmer|Lai]]
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