Google DeepMind repurposed its AlphaGo AI to beat the best chess and shogi bots

Google-owned DeepMind put out a new paper that outlines how the team took the machine learning system that created AlphaGo and built a new system that tackled chess and shogi, beating the top programs at each game. The program, called AlphaZero, also beat its predecessor, AlphaGo Zero.
It was a logical next move for DeepMind. Chess and shogi (a chess-like board game that originated in Japan) are both games with computer programs that have already beaten top human players. AlphaZero beat both Sto