LLM Chess: Benchmarking Reasoning and Instruction-Following in LLMs through Chess
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LLM Chess : Benchmarking Reasoning and Instruction-Following in LLMs through Chess Sai Kolasani 1 , Maxim Saplin 2 , Nicholas Crispino 3 , Kyle Montgomery 3 , Jared Quincy Davis 4 , Matei Zaharia 1 , Chi Wang 5 , Chenguang Wang 3 1 UC Berkeley, 2 Independent Researcher, 3 UC Santa Cruz, 4 Stanford University, 5 Google DeepMind saikolasani@berkeley.edu , tutehabre@gmail.com Abstract We introduce LLM Chess , an evaluation framework designed to probe the generalization of reasoning and instruction-following abilities in large language models (LLMs) through extended agentic interaction in the doma
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