Comments by "Mikko Rantalainen" (@MikkoRantalainen) on "Hikaru Nakamura teaches chess to Lex Fridman" video.

  1. If you see M1, look for better, right?
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  2. Not even computers can evaluate the full game so we cannot know if the computer program actually evaluates the position correctly using heuristics (AI or otherwise). However, computers are already much stronger in Chess so we must simply trust the computer to be probably correct – or at least more correct than humans.
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  3. If it was simply about giving the turn to opponent, surely you would want to push only one square forward. The fact that it's a two square move, it must be about tempo. I would guess it's about tempo getting the pawn closer to promotion for the end game and it's still possible to defend the pawn if needed so it's not a gambit.
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  4. If you look at the position that Hikaru is talking about around 8:40, the issue is speficially the situation where king side knight has already moved over to other side of the board. That's what makes that move so weird to still make sense for a computer.
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