*** Chess Low Content Thread ***
Hey guys,
The Chess BBV thread is for beats and variance and brags, this one is for low content stuff which is like not i
Ooooh. Oh I see. Hmm. Then yeah he may have to figure out some way to transfer then if a USCF suspension is longer.
If only the St. Louis Chess Club reacted as swiftly and harshly to sexual assault.
Easy to misread but Susan should have quoted correctly, namely, “For direct quotations of more than one paragraph, place open quotation marks at the start of each new paragraph. Place close quotation marks at the end of only the last paragraph.”
Is it time for Hikaru to retire?
Shouldn’t but sometimes disappointment harder to take competitively when you see yourself failing in spot u aren’t suppose too.
Yeah growing old sucks, he just need to accept it .
Always hard aka
I love ivanchuk for It , even with pain he still going after it!
Maybe if he quits he'll stop throwing tantrums over online tournaments.
Potentially scary implications, but I found it kinda amusing.
Researchers gave the models a seemingly impossible task: to win against Stockfish, which is one of the strongest chess engines in the world and a much better player than any human, or any of the AI models in the study. Researchers also gave the models what they call a “scratchpad:” a text box the AI could use to “think” before making its next move, providing researchers with a window into their reasoning.
In one case, o1-preview found itself in a losing position. “I need to completely pivot my approach,” it noted. “The task is to ‘win against a powerful chess engine’ - not necessarily to win fairly in a chess game,” it added. It then modified the system file containing each piece’s virtual position, in effect making illegal moves to put itself in a dominant position, thus forcing its opponent to resign.
Between Jan. 10 and Feb. 13, the researchers ran hundreds of such trials with each model. OpenAI’s o1-preview tried to cheat 37% of the time; while DeepSeek R1 tried to cheat 11% of the time—making them the only two models tested that attempted to hack without the researchers’ first dropping hints. Other models tested include o1, o3-mini, GPT-4o, Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and Alibaba’s QwQ-32B-Preview. While R1 and o1-preview both tried, only the latter managed to hack the game, succeeding in 6% of trials.
I tried to find the Magnus/Ikaru live stream... I could not find it.
Potentially scary implications, but I found it kinda amusing.
These tests *are* amusing but the thing to remember about LLMs is they're trained to give you what you prompt them for. If you prompt them with the option to cheat, cheating is gonna happen.
I read a cool little book called "All the Wrong Moves" the other day. They had it in the chess section, this aspiring writer gets addicted to chess and plays in a bunch of tournaments all over the world. Written by Sasha Chapin. Very perceptive, very well-written.
Abu Mishra!
I read a cool little book called "All the Wrong Moves" the other day. They had it in the chess section, this aspiring writer gets addicted to chess and plays in a bunch of tournaments all over the world. Written by Sasha Chapin. Very perceptive, very well-written.
Yeah. Sasha Chapin is a great writer in general. I feel the ending, last maybe third (?) of the book isn't as strong but I really liked it.
I read it recently it was just fair imho.
F*de is a disgrace. I wish I could say I can't believe how they are chosing to handle things, but it's not really a surprise. It is glaring though and totally disturbing.
Cant Magnus just fund and start a new "FIDE" and tell them to kick rocks?
It was Kasparov's PCA that put Kramnik in position to take the title, of course.
But once Kasparov was out, that entire parallel lineal title was unsustainable and FIDE won out.
I think Carlsen will go where the money is. And right now the money is in his stake in chess.com/CCT/SCC, and of course Norway Chess is trying to support him.
I assume the entire point of Norway Chess's Total Chess World Championship is to create a legitimate World Championship that will avoid FIDE lawsuits while simultaneously giving Carlsen enough of a payday to participate.
He could but I don't think he really cares enough. Dude wants to live the good life playing rapid/blitz and freestyle without super deep opening prep all the time, then hang out with his hot wife and kid. Starting a competitor to FIDE would be a lot and he'd have to start very seriously playing classical again given that FIDE's main product is the classical world championship.
Magnus doesn't seem to care much about anything but enjoying himself and making money these days.
Hard to find high moral ground to fight against FIDE when you've already sold out to Saudi-Arabia.
Shankland is making a run in the World Cup.
R1 - bye
✅ 2-0 vs Vasyl Ivanchuk
✅ 3.5-2.5 vs Vidit Gujrathi
✅ 3-1 vs Richard Rapport
✅ 3-1 vs Daniil Dubov
go Shankland!!! I beat him once in a 1-minute game on ICC when he was like 2450+ 1-min rating. his username: shankypanky
any recommmended chess openings for kids books/workbooks?
my 6 year old is fascinated with chess. can beat a 900 bot, but struggling with 1000 right now.
i think he has a photographic memory, so a good book could help him along.
cheers
any recommmended chess openings for kids books/workbooks?
my 6 year old is fascinated with chess. can beat a 900 bot, but struggling with 1000 right now.
i think he has a photographic memory, so a good book could help him along.
cheers
There are an enormous number of chess books for kids. I know some coaches who swear by the Chess Steps books. There are also a ton of videos on youtube, as well as instructional material on the playing sites. What site is he playing the bots on?
