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Comment author: TheMajor 15 September 2015 07:12:59PM *  2 points [-]

Yes, I noticed this too. The paper itself compares Giraffe (ELO ~2400) to 8 other chess engines (page 25 of the PDF), and decides that

It is clear that Giraffe's evaluation function now has at least comparable positional understanding compared to evaluation functions of top engines in the world.

For comparison, a frequently updated list of chess engines and their (approximate) ELO ratings, which would list Giraffe around shared 165'th place. It seems that it is the reporting, instead of the paper, that is making the exaggeration.

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