Chess

Spending 10 months building the most human-like chess bot

Marcus Buffett details Chessbook-1, a 199M-parameter transformer trained on a year of Lichess games, and benchmarks it against Allie 2.0 and Maia-3 on predicting human moves, matching playing strength at every rating, erring in time scrambles and predicting how long a human would think.

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