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cracellyesterday at 7:44 PM1 replyview on HN

I found it to be an interesting angle but thought it was odd that a key point is is "LLMs dominate chess-like domains" while LLMs are not great at chess https://dev.to/maximsaplin/can-llms-play-chess-ive-tested-13...


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swyxyesterday at 9:24 PM

i mean, right there in the top update:

> UPD September 15, 2025: Reasoning models opened a new chapter in Chess performance, the most recent models, such as GPT-5, can play reasonable chess, even beating an average chess.com player.

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