Comment by wat10000

Isn’t this exactly how AlphaZero was trained? The rules are known and well defined so the training process can generate games without any outside data.

The only reason LLMs are this bad at chess is because the labs don’t care about chess performance so they’re not going out of their way to train the models for it. The ability they do have is from what chess information happens to be in the training data, plus whatever general reasoning abilities they may be able to apply.