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deadbabetoday at 12:10 AM1 replyview on HN

Why? Beating chess is more about searching a probability space, not reasoning.

Reasoning would be more like the car wash question.


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famouswafflestoday at 3:38 AM

It's not entirely clear how LLMs that can play chess do so, but it is clearly very different from the way other machines do so. The construct a board, they can estimate a players skill and adjust accordingly, and unlike other machines and similarly to humans, they are sensitive to how a certain position came to be when predicting the next move.

Regardless, there's plenty of reasoning in chess.