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The interesting thing about grandmasters is their ability to recognise a winning position regardless of working out the moves yet, something AlphaZero (chess engine) seems to take to the extreme of recognising winning patterns that it can intuit will lead to winning games without hard calculation.

Maybe the architect equivalent is someone explaining the structure of a system and instantly knowing roughly where the problems are before inspecting the individual parts. Like the grandmaster the architect will intuit better than most where the problems likely are given a high level overview.



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