RL for Games — AlphaZero, MuZero, and the LLM-Reasoning Era
1992: TD-Gammon beat human champions at backgammon with pure TD. 2016: AlphaGo beat Lee Sedol. 2017: AlphaZero dominated chess, shogi, and Go from scratch. 2024: DeepSeek-R1 proved the same recipe, with GRPO replacing PPO, works on reasoning. Games are the benchmark that drives every breakthrough in this phase.
Visual edition planned
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It is part of the curriculum and will get the same treatment as Phase 1 — a visual cover, hands-on labs, derivations with numeric checks and a quiz. Until then, the original lesson is the best place to read it:
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