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Something weird is happening with LLMs and chess


Are they good or bad?

A year ago, there was a lot of talk about large language models (LLMs) playing chess. I only ran 10 trials since AI companies have inexplicable neglected to send me free API keys and this was costing The Automator money. If you want to know exactly how I did things, here are some words: I ran all the open models (anything not from OpenAI, meaning anything that doesn’t start with gpt or o1) myself using Q5_K_M quantization, whatever that is.

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