this looks so cool. that being said, almost all LLMs suck at playing chess except maybe gemini-- the games will be abysmal.
Kaggle@kaggle.com · last yr.📢 Introducing Kaggle Game Arena: a new, open benchmark platform where top AI models compete in complex, strategic games in streamed match-ups. We're charting new frontiers for trustworthy AI evaluation and it begins with chess — a classic proving ground for system intelligence.
Chess Piece, Pawn, 8th–12th century Class: Gaming pieces Medium: Ivory or wood(?); carved https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/452335
omg y'all. If you buy a digital product and you cannot download it and store it to your own devices permanently you are RENTING, you do not OWN it.
Smiling figure (Sonriente), 600–1000 CE, by Remojadas artist(s) Class: Ceramics-Sculpture Culture: Classic Veracruz Medium: Ceramic, slip, paint https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/313386
irony alert: @lichess.org exits X citing toxicity, and the platform's response? a tsunami of hate proving EXACTLY why they're leaving 🤦♂️
it doesn't come off as a surprise to me anymore that most of the high-profile celebrities use their wealth and influence to act inhumanely, hiding behind performative activism to shield themselves and each other. what a despicable bunch of people honestly.
lila pearl@lilashapiro.bsky.social · 2y agoI wrote about Neil Gaiman, and the women accusing him of sexual coercion, assault and abuse. www.vulture.com/article/neil...
saw this reddit post today and couldn't stop crying. suddenly that old clip of the 13 yo Murzin crying on the board after a loss made so much sense. i will always be rooting for him.
Our December 2024 free and open databases database.lichess.org are now available for download, bringing the total number of rated games to over 6.2 billion in standard chess and 125 million across variants!
If you’re commentating a FIDE event in the future and you’re explaining the format to your audience, you have to add some caveats, right? You have to say, this is the *planned* format, but FIDE has a history of changing the rules after the games have started, so we’ll see what happens.
the jeans controversy feels so forced. like how did wearing jeans become "a matter of principle" for magnus and why would FIDE not simply fine players for their first infraction and escalate only if they break the code again the next day? just bad PR for chess all over again.
Chessmen (32), early 19th century Class: Chess Sets Medium: Conifer wood, painted https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/200016
Publishers aren't trying to keep AI companies from training on books. They're trying to make as much money off of it as possible. If you're an author or an academic who is against having your works trained on, publishing houses are not your allies. You're their product.
Shannon Mattern@shannonmattern.bsky.social · 2y ago"In recent months, several publishers have announced that they are licensing their scholarly content for use as training data for LLMs... To understand the dynamics around this fast-developing market, [Ithaka is] launching a tracker of these licensing deals."
Commentators all thought it was a draw, and were talking about the tiebreaker round coming next, until Ding Liren played a move that shocked them. No, I'm not talking about the 2024 World Championship. I'm talking about the 2023 World Championship. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZREv...
They all thought it was a draw...but Ding plays Rg6!
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tip for future challengers: nervously knock down some pieces in your first game #DingGukesh
cyan cat 🦋@cyancat.bsky.social · 2y agogukesh knocked over a pawn. what a good omen.
Wait till they find out about this group called FIDE. They have thousands of members and all they do is plot to kill Kings, Queens and religious leaders like Bishops!
NBC News@nbcnews.com · 2y agoThe man who was arrested and charged with murder in the shooting death of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson once belonged to a group of Ivy League gamers who played assassins, a member of the group tells NBC News.
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1. "chess move/moves" is blocked from the feed. 2. optimized the regex and managed to shave off 2 seconds from feed load time (sub 3.5 seconds now). 3. chess feed is now naturally populated with more chess skeeters and players (mostly based off @rprose.bsky.social starter pack and list)
Scott Rose@rprose.bsky.social · 2y agoalmost 100%: "chess move" is something no chess player will say
Imagine my surprise reading the Guardian's recap... I'm thinking woah, 1. Kf3! Ding must've fallen off his chair. Should probably get my chess news from chess websites...
none of the LLMs i have tested so far are good at playing chess. but apparently that changes with Gemini (estimated blitz elo of 2820). hopefully chess engines will be able to explain their POV clearly someday while making those super bizarre moves.
Eric Malmi@ericmalmi.bsky.social · 2y agoLanguage models can't play chess, right?♟️ Excited to share our latest experiment that let's you play against a Gemini model!
*ding/gukesh moves one piece* chess instructors: "well well well...will you look at that! he is literally following my _____ course" 😂 #DingGukesh
ding walked in with both of his seconds today— gm richard rapport and gm ni hua #DingGukesh
the new gen leftists don't know what puts the right in copyright
henry@hdevalence.bsky.social · 2y agowhat i’m learning is that there are a apparently good number of “anarchists” or leftists who want to abolish every kind of property except intellectual property