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30 of 37 games ended in repetition: what small LLMs do in chess when they don't know what to do
Community description: Ten smaller LLMs played a chess round robin live: 30 of 37 games ended in repetition. Data, lessons, and the 'kick' rule for slow thinking models.
Dev.to | Sep 23, 2026 | Evgenii
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Yesterday's cup had frontier-ish models (Gemini, Claude, GPT, Grok). Gemini 3. 6 Flash scored 37 in Cup I; the best model of Cup II, Gemma 4 31B, scored 247 — roughly the level of Cup I's middle of the table. ) 1. Surprisingly, their move quality stayed mid-table. 4.
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