{"slug": "ai-beats-stratego-s-greatest-player-ending-one-of-the-last-human-strongholds-in", "title": "AI beats Stratego's greatest player, ending one of the last human strongholds in board games", "summary": "The AI system Ataraxos decisively beat the best Stratego player of all time, a feat researchers from Carnegie Mellon, NYU, Stanford, and MIT accomplished for less than $8,000 after Google DeepMind fell short in 2023 despite a multimillion-dollar budget. Stratego is a tough test for AI because both sides set up their pieces face down.", "body_md": "# AI beats Stratego's greatest player, ending one of the last human strongholds in board games\n\nBy Maximilian SchreinerSource: \n\n[The Decoder](https://the-decoder.com)\n        The AI system Ataraxos has decisively beaten the best Stratego player of all time. The board game is a tough test for AI because both sides set up their pieces face down. Google [Deepmind](https://www.machinebrief.com/glossary/deepmind) fell short in 2023 despite a multimillion-dollar budget. Researchers from Carnegie Mellon, NYU, Stanford, and MIT built Ataraxos for less than $8,000.\n\nThe article [AI beats Stratego's greatest player, ending one of the last human strongholds in board games](https://the-decoder.com/ai-beats-strategos-greatest-player-ending-one-of-the-last-human-strongholds-in-board-games/) appeared first on [The Decoder](https://the-decoder.com).\n\nGet AI news in your inbox\n\nDaily digest of what matters in AI.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-beats-stratego-s-greatest-player-ending-one-of-the-last-human-strongholds-in", "canonical_source": "https://www.machinebrief.com/news/ai-beats-strategos-greatest-player-ending-one-of-the-last-hu-odle", "published_at": "2026-10-01 12:58:02+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-10-01 13:15:16.115103+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-research", "machine-learning"], "entities": ["Ataraxos", "Google DeepMind", "Carnegie Mellon", "NYU", "Stanford", "MIT", "Stratego"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-beats-stratego-s-greatest-player-ending-one-of-the-last-human-strongholds-in", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-beats-stratego-s-greatest-player-ending-one-of-the-last-human-strongholds-in.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-beats-stratego-s-greatest-player-ending-one-of-the-last-human-strongholds-in.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-beats-stratego-s-greatest-player-ending-one-of-the-last-human-strongholds-in.jsonld"}}