alt Hacker NewsI imagine it will learn to win under some circumstances, perhaps in a case with some context expressing a desire to win. Drawing out an LLMs upper ability in the game should be fairly straightforward.
I imagine it will learn to win under some circumstances, perhaps in a case with some context expressing a desire to win. Drawing out an LLMs upper ability in the game should be fairly straightforward.
If you asked it to try to win, to "plan lines step by step", etc, then it would do it's best to follow that instruction, but unless RLVR trained to reason about chess (easy to do, but not sure which models may have done it) then it'd have to instead rely on the chess reasoning it had seen during pre-training (post-game interviews etc), which I doubt is enough to do very well.
However, if you just ask it to continue a game, halfway in progress, then by default it will try to predict the most likely continuation, which is that both players will continue to play at the level they have done so far. This isn't a theory - it's been documented, as well as what you'd expect.