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[-] gerikson@awful.systems 10 points 1 week ago

Dude discovers that one LLM model is not entirely shit at chess, spends time and tokens proving that other models are actually also not shit at chess.

The irony? He's comparing it against Stockfish, a computer chess engine. Computers playing chess at a superhuman level is a solved problem. LLMs have now slightly approached that level.

For one, gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct rarely suggests illegal moves,

Writeup https://dynomight.net/more-chess/

HN discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42206817

[-] sc_griffith@awful.systems 15 points 1 week ago

LLMs sometimes struggle to give legal moves. In these experiments, I try 10 times and if there’s still no legal move, I just pick one at random.

uhh

[-] mountainriver@awful.systems 9 points 1 week ago

Battlechess both could choose legal moves and also had cool animations. Battlechess wins again!

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