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  1. Temporal-Difference Learning for Dragonchess

    Oct 1, 2026Jim O'Connor, Annika Hoag, Sarah Goyette +1ChessTemporal Difference

    Connecticut College, New London CT 06320, USA

  2. Benchmarking Prompt Optimization of Large Language Models With Chess

    Sep 30, 2026Timothée Lesort, Alejandra López de Aberasturi Gómez, Tristan Karch +4ChessLarge Language Model Benchmarks

    imec AI.labs

  3. Conditional Generation of Creative Chess Puzzles with Diffusion Models

    Sep 29, 2026Aatu Selkee, Severi Rissanen, Xidong Feng +2ChessDiffusion Models

    Aalto University · Google DeepMind

  4. Amadeus: When Models of People Meet

    Sep 24, 2026Karl HannaChessArtificial Intelligence Models

    Queen’s University Belfast United Kingdom

  5. Increasing Skill Level Recruits Deeper Attention Layers in a Frozen Chess Transformer

    Sep 20, 2026David LitmanChessTransformer Attention

    Computational Neurobiology Laboratory, Salk Institute

  6. What Counts as Strategic Reasoning? A Systematic Mapping of Chess Research on Humans, Engines, and Language Models

    Sep 16, 2026Paolo Ciancarini, Remo PareschiChessStrategic Reasoning

    Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy · Stake Lab, University of Molise, Campobasso, Italy

  7. Reproducing and Evaluating the Generalizability of Subliminal Learning in Open-Weight Models

    Sep 14, 2026Daan van der Weijden, Nathan Brack, Selene Baez SantamariaModel WeightsTeacher

    University of Zurich

  8. Exploring Collaboration between a language and a non-language agent

    Aug 31, 2026Harini S, Somesh Singh, Yaman K Singla +3CollaborationVerbalization

    Adobe Media and Data Science Research (MDSR) · IIIT-Delhi · IIT Kanpur +1

  9. ChessQueries: Toward Better Chess Board Recognition

    Aug 31, 2026Joël SeytreChessRt-Detr

  10. Otter: A Time-Aware, History-Conditioned Human Chess AI

    Aug 5, 2026Tarun Kumar SChessHuman Motion Prediction

    Peargent Labs Bangalore, India

  11. Hallucinations on the Board: Tool-Augmented Evaluation of LLM Chess Commentary

    Aug 4, 2026S. Ashwin Hebbar, Peiyao Sheng, Sewoong Oh +1Chess

    Princeton University · Sentient Labs · University of Washington

  12. Chess on Ice: Curling Tactical Decision-Making via Backward Induction and Deep Reinforcement Learning

    Aug 3, 2026Patrick Oberlin, Matteo Cederle, Aren Karapetyan +3ChessTactics

    Automatic Control Laboratory, ETH Zurich, Switzerland · Department of Information Engineering, University of Padova, Italy · Belimo Automation AG, Hinwil, Switzerland

  13. Belief-Guided Decision Making with Uncertainty Gating in the Game of Go

    Jul 29, 2026Mehrad Yaghoubi, Azam Bastanfard, Abbas Jalilvand +1Monte Carlo Tree SearchChess

    Department of Computer Engineering, Ka.C, Islamic Azad University, Karaj, Iran

  14. Engine-Equal, Human-Unequal: A Reproducible Outcome Skew in Engine-Assessed Equal Chess Positions

    Jul 28, 2026Jesung ParkChessSkewness

    Gamakon

  15. Chess_db: A framework for working with large chess game datasets

    Jul 23, 2026Nicos Angelopoulos, Jan WielemakerChessLarge Databases

    University College & Imperial College, London UK · University College & Imperial College London, UK · SWI-Prolog solutions +1

  16. The Weight of Silence: A Causal Case for Weights Over the Scratchpad in Latent Chess Reasoning

    Jul 23, 2026Ishan S. KshirsagarEfficient Latent ReasoningLatent Thoughts

    Independent Researcher

  17. Understanding Reasoning from Pretraining to Post-Training

    Jul 17, 2026Jingyan Shen, Ang Li, Salman Rahman +4LLM Reasoning StrategiesLarge Language Model Pretraining

    New York University · Columbia University · University of California, Los Angeles +2

  18. Communicating Chess Strategies in Natural Language

    Jul 13, 2026Langyuan Cui, Chun Kai Ling, Hwee Tou NgChessNatural Language

    Department of Computer Science National University of Singapore 13 Computing Drive, Singapore 117417

  19. AlphaZero in Sparsely Rewarded Games: Limits and Auxiliary Supervision

    Jul 9, 2026Brent Kong, Tejas Ram, Tony Yue YuSelf-PlayChess

    Department of Mathematics · California Institute of Technology · Department of Computer Science

  20. Accelerating Skill Assessment in Chess: A Drift-Diffusion-Enhanced Elo Rating System

    Jun 24, 2026Tianyuan Zhou, Zhizheng Fu, Tianming YangChess

    School of Intelligence Science and Technology Nanjing University Suzhou, China · Center for Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligence Technology Institute of Neuroscience Chinese Academy of Sciences Shanghai, China

  21. Matilda: Engine-Agnostic Search with Human Policy Guidance

    Jun 23, 2026Jason CarlsonChessRepresentation Learning

  22. RePAIR: Predictive Self-Supervised Representation Learning in Chess

    Jun 10, 2026Christoph Koller, Johannes Fürnkranz, Timo BertramChessSelf-Supervised Representations

    JKU Linz, Austria

  23. DeliChess: A Multi-party Dialogue Dataset for Deliberation in Chess Puzzle Solving

    Jun 3, 2026Xiaochen Zhu, Georgi Karadzhov, Tom Stafford +1ChessDeliberation

    University of Cambridge · University of Sheffield

  24. ChessMimic: Per-Rating Transformer Models for Human Move, Clock, and Outcome Prediction in Online Blitz Chess

    Jun 3, 2026Thomas JohnsonChessClocks

    Nascent

  25. Learning to Solve and Optimize by Evolving Code

    May 29, 2026Veronika Semmelrock, Benedetta Strizzolo, Francesco Zuccato +3HeuristicsPrompt Optimization

    University of Klagenfurt, Austria · University of Udine, Italy

  26. Chess-World-Model: A 10M-Game Benchmark for Exact State Tracking from Chess Move Sequences

    May 28, 2026Benjamin Walker, Terry LyonsChessLatent States

    Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford · Department of Mathematics, Imperial College London

  27. UniMaia: Steering Chess Policies with Language for Human-like Play

    May 26, 2026Sherman Siu, Lesley IsteadChessLarge Language Model Policy Optimization

    University of Waterloo · Carleton University

  28. Chessformer: A Unified Architecture for Chess Modeling

    May 18, 2026Daniel Monroe, George Eilender, Philip Chalmers +2ChessTransformer Encoder

    University of Toronto · Williams College

  29. Generalization or Memorization? Brittleness Testing for Chess-Trained Language Models

    May 17, 2026Ethan TangChessModel Checkpoints

    School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence · Arizona State University · Tempe, AZ 85281

  30. Watermarking Game-Playing Agents in Perfect-Information Extensive-Form Games

    May 14, 2026Juho Kim, Fei Fang, Tuomas SandholmLarge Language Model WatermarksWatermarks

    Computer Science Department Carnegie Mellon University · Software and Societal Systems Department Carnegie Mellon University · Computer Science Department, CMU +3

  31. Toward Modeling Player-Specific Chess Behaviors

    May 12, 2026Loris Sogliuzzo, Aloïs Rautureau, Eric PietteChessText Embeddings

    ICTEAM, UCLouvain · Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

  32. Tensor Product Representation Probes Reveal Shared Structure Across Linear Directions

    May 11, 2026Andrew Lee, Fernanda Viégas, Martin WattenbergRepresentation SpaceChess

    Harvard University · Google DeepMind* · *Work done at Harvard.

  33. A geometric relation of the error introduced by sampling a language model's output distribution to its internal state

    May 6, 2026Albert F. ModenbachSingle-Token Output DistributionsChess

    Department of Mathematics, King’s College London, United Kingdom.

  34. CP-SynC: Multi-Agent Zero-Shot Constraint Modeling in MiniZinc with Synthesized Checkers

    May 3, 2026Yuliang Song, Eldan CohenConstraint SatisfactionChess

    Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

  35. Checkerboard: A Simple, Effective, Efficient and Learning-free Clean Label Backdoor Attack with Low Poisoning Budget

    May 2, 2026Yi Yang, Jinyang Huang, Binbin Liu +5Clean Label Backdoor AttackBlack-Box Adversarial Attacks

    School of Computer Science and Information Engineering Hefei University of Technology Hefei, Anhui, China · School of Information Science and Technology University of Science and Technology of China Hefei, Anhui, China · Faculty of Business Data Science Kansai University Japan +3

  36. Grounded Chess Reasoning in Language Models via Master Distillation

    Mar 20, 2026Zhenwei Tang, Qianfeng Wen, Seth Grief-Albert +4ChessChain-of-Thought Reasoning

    Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto · Queen’s University · Coolwei AI Lab

  37. Understanding Role Switching in Human-AI Collaboration through Multimodal Behavioral Signals

    Sep 25, 2025Avinash Ajit Nargund, Arthur Caetano, Kevin Yang +7Human-Ai CollaborationCollaboration

    University of California, Santa Barbara, USA · Washington University in St.Louis, USA

  38. From Multimodal Perception to Strategic Reasoning: A Survey on AI-Generated Game Commentary

    Jun 17, 2025Qirui Zheng, Xingbo Wang, Keyuan Cheng +5Generative Artificial IntelligenceStrategic Reasoning

    Peking University · King Abdullah University of Science and Technology