Has anyone used a regular LLM for playing chess

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Has anyone used a regular LLM for playing chess

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Has anyone used a regular LLM for playing chess. I am not talking about Neural nets but ollama and the likes for playing chess.
I would ask, what move is best in this fen <fenstring>? Or can I mate in x moves in this fen <string>?
What would be elo?
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Re: Has anyone used a regular LLM for playing chess

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This has been discussed in the Gemini thread - link.

They are slowly getting better: here's an early ChapGPT 3.5 game - one of my favourite GothamChess videos ever!


Human chess is partly about tactics and strategy, but mostly about memory