Comment by DiogenesKynikos
1 year ago
Speed chess relies on skill.
I think you're using "skill" to refer solely to one aspect of chess skill: the ability to do brute-force calculations of sequences of upcoming moves. There are other aspects of chess skill, such as:
1. The ability to judge a chess position at a glance, based on years of experience in playing chess and theoretical knowledge about chess positions.
2. The ability to instantly spot tactics in a position.
In blitz (about 5 minutes) or bullet (1 minute) chess games, these other skills are much more important than the ability to calculate deep lines. They're still aspects of chess skill, and they're probably equally important as the ability to do long brute-force calculations.
> tactics in a position
That should give patterns (hence your use of the verb to "spot" them, as the grandmaster would indeed spot the patterns) recognizable in the game string.
More specifically grammar-like parterns, e.g. the same moves but translated.
Typically what an LLM can excel at.