AlphaZero/Kramnik: More variants

Modifying the existing rules for chess to make it more dynamic or decisive, is a non-trivial task: you need years of experience and large numbers of people playing new versions in order to assess the quality and appeal of any new variant. Former World Champion Vladimir Kramnik has proposed new variants, and DeepMind has used their AI technology to evaluate them in a much shorter period of time. Here are their findings for No-castling, Pawn one square and Stalemate=win chess.

AI Ruined Chess Now Its Making the Game Beautiful Again

Reimagining Chess with AlphaZero, February 2022

PDF] Assessing Game Balance with AlphaZero: Exploring Alternative

Acquisition of chess knowledge in AlphaZero

ACM: Digital Library: Communications of the ACM

Kramnik And AlphaZero: How To Rethink Chess

Vladimir Kramnik, AI and new chess variants 10.10.2020

The king on centre stage (ChessTech News)

Acquisition of chess knowledge in AlphaZero

Kramnik and AlphaZero Blundering, Grossly