It's a proxy for generalized reasoning.
The point isn't that LLMs are the best AI architecture for chess.
> It's a proxy for generalized reasoning.
And so for I am only convinced that they have only succeeded on appearing to have generalized reasoning. That is, when an LLM plays chess they are performing Searle’s Chinese room thought experiment while claiming to pass the Turing test
Why? Beating chess is more about searching a probability space, not reasoning.
Reasoning would be more like the car wash question.