Comment by HarHarVeryFunny

It would be more impressive if they could play chess (or do anything they haven't been custom RLVR trained for) by reasoning, rather than just "have a go at it" prediction which is closer to memorization.

HOW you do it makes a big difference in how you should assess the capability of the thing doing it. Stockfish will trounce any LLM, and any human, at chess, so should we say that Stockfish is smarter than both?