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Language Models that Play Chess and Explain Their Moves

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Briefings

This article introduces Queen, a 4-billion-parameter chess-language model that achieves Grandmaster-level playing strength while generating fluent explanations for its moves. The model uses a novel encoder-decoder architecture with iterative distillation to improve its reasoning over seven iterations, reaching 2697 Elo points. While the model's playing strength significantly outperforms frontier models, its explanations are evaluated as fluent and approach high-level GPT-5.6-Sol coherence. The work demonstrates a generalizable framework for applying language models to domains with silent expert encoders.

Key points

• The model Queen achieves 2697 Elo points in chess, surpassing all frontier models despite containing only 4 billion parameters.
• Queen's explanations are fluent and approach high-level GPT-5.6-Sol coherence in natural language.

Context and limitations

The study covers a single 4B-parameter model trained via a specific curriculum; results may not generalize to larger models or different game domains.

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