Chess

TagLast edit: 3 Jul 2023 19:25 UTC by Alex Caswen

[Question] Lying to chess players for alignment

Zane25 Oct 2023 17:47 UTC

101 points

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Axiological Stopsigns

JenniferRM5 Jan 2026 7:30 UTC

34 points

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Evidence of Learned Look-Ahead in a Chess-Playing Neural Network

Erik Jenner4 Jun 2024 15:50 UTC

121 points

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When do “brains beat brawn” in Chess? An experiment

titotal28 Jun 2023 13:33 UTC

327 points

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(titotal.substack.com)

Just How Good Are Modern Chess Computers?

nem19 Sep 2024 18:57 UTC

10 points

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[Question] Chess—“Elo” of random play?

Shankar Sivarajan7 May 2025 2:18 UTC

10 points

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Chess as a case study in hidden capabilities in ChatGPT

AdamYedidia19 Aug 2023 6:35 UTC

47 points

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Simultaneous Randomized Chess

jefftk27 Dec 2020 3:30 UTC

12 points

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(www.jefftk.com)

Chess and cheap ways to check day to day variance in cognition

KPier7 Jul 2021 0:08 UTC

56 points

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AI debate: test yourself against chess ‘AIs’

Richard Willis22 Nov 2023 14:58 UTC

26 points

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Deception Chess

Chris Land1 Jan 2024 15:40 UTC

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“Acquisition of Chess Knowledge in AlphaZero”: probing AZ over time

jsd18 Nov 2021 23:24 UTC

11 points

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(arxiv.org)

Computation, Chess, and Language in Artificial Intelligence

Bill Benzon5 Mar 2026 12:57 UTC

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A chess game against GPT-4

Rafael Harth16 Mar 2023 14:05 UTC

24 points

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Deception Chess: Game #1

Zane, aphyer, Alex A and AdamYedidia

3 Nov 2023 21:13 UTC

118 points

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Ideal Chess—drop chess perfected

MikkW17 Dec 2020 20:03 UTC

23 points

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[Review] Move First, Think Later: Sense and Nonsense in Improving Your Chess

Arjun Panickssery18 Sep 2023 15:10 UTC

36 points

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(arjunpanickssery.substack.com)

How much chess engine progress is about adapting to bigger computers?

paulfchristiano7 Jul 2021 22:35 UTC

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Can chess be a game of luck?

Rune6 Jul 2009 3:08 UTC

−3 points

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Skepticism About DeepMind’s “Grandmaster-Level” Chess Without Search

Arjun Panickssery12 Feb 2024 0:56 UTC

57 points

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Compression Before Collapse: A Theory of Tactical Coercion

Gateo10 Jul 2025 17:35 UTC

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Beyond ELO: Rethinking Chess Skill as a Multidimensional Random Variable

Oliver Oswald10 Feb 2025 19:19 UTC

6 points

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The Undervalued Kleene Hierarchy

milanrosko18 Dec 2025 11:57 UTC

10 points

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Why I’ll Keep My Crummy Drawings—How Generative AI Art Won’t Supplant… Art.

James Stephen Brown15 May 2024 19:30 UTC

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Superposition Checkers: A Game Where AI’s Strengths Become Fatal Flaws

R. A. McCormack6 Apr 2025 0:57 UTC

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Chess as a prediction model of the artificial intelligence impact on culture

8498 May 2026 20:19 UTC

−4 points

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(lojkine.art)

On Measuring Intellectual Performance—personal experience and several thoughts

Alexander Gufan20 Sep 2024 17:21 UTC

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