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Danqi Chen on "Language Models that Play Chess and Explain Their Moves"

Danqi Chen (@danqi_chen) · October 5, 2026 ·1 posts · original on X

About: Language Models that Play Chess and Explain Their Moves

The senior author's one post on the paper, quoting the lead author's thread: a 4B chess language model that plays at typical grandmaster level and explains its moves.

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1. Super proud of what the team has achieved @AdithyaNLP @jeff_cheng_77 (they are both great researchers and chess players)
   
   A 4B chess LM that plays chess at typical grandmaster level and explains its moves (!)
   
   I will discuss this work at Berkeley in 30 minutes.
   
   Also, I am… https://t.co/87VLebj0fF

   — Danqi Chen @COLM 2026 (@danqi_chen) October 5, 2026