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Do AI systems truly understand human concepts or merely mimic surface patterns? We investigate this through chess, where human creativity meets precise strategic concepts. Analyzing a 270M-parameter transformer that achieves…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Semyon Lomasov , Judah Goldfeder , Mehmet Hamza Erol , Matthew So , Yao Yan , Addison Howard , Nathan Kutz , Ravid Shwartz Ziv

Chess, a deterministic game with perfect information, has long served as a benchmark for studying strategic decision-making and artificial intelligence. Traditional chess engines or tools for analysis primarily focus on calculating optimal…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Daren Zhong , Dingcheng Huang , Clayton Greenberg

Determining an individual's strategic reasoning capability based solely on choice data is a complex task. This complexity arises because sophisticated players might have non-equilibrium beliefs about others, leading to non-equilibrium…

General Economics · Economics 2026-02-04 Wei James Chen , Meng-Jhang Fong , Po-Hsuan Lin

Since the advent of computers, many tasks which required humans to spend a lot of time and energy have been trivialized by the computers' ability to perform repetitive tasks extremely quickly. Playing chess is one such task. It was one of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-08-22 Rahul Aralikatte , G Srinivasaraghavan

Predicting and modeling human behavior and finding trends within human decision-making processes is a major problem of social science. Rock Paper Scissors (RPS) is the fundamental strategic question in many game theory problems and…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Lei Wang , Wenbin Huang , Yuanpeng Li , Julian Evans , Sailing He

Understanding the properties of games played under computational constraints remains challenging. For example, how do we expect rational (but computationally bounded) players to play games with a prohibitively large number of states, such…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-20 Thomas Orton

It has long been believed that Chess is the \emph{Drosophila} of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Studying Chess can productively provide valid knowledge about complex systems. Although remarkable progress has been made on solving Chess, the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-10-25 Ricky Sanjaya , Jun Wang , Yaodong Yang

This paper contributes a new way to evaluate AI. Much as one might evaluate a machine in terms of its performance at chess, this approach involves evaluating a machine in terms of its performance at a game called "MAD Chairs". At the time…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Chris Santos-Lang

Artificial intelligence-based systems for player risk detection have become central to harm prevention efforts in the gambling industry. However, growing concerns around transparency and effectiveness have highlighted the absence of…

We have seen numerous machine learning methods tackle the game of chess over the years. However, one common element in these works is the necessity of a finely optimized look ahead algorithm. The particular interest of this research lies…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Arman Maesumi

Recent advances in game informatics have enabled us to find strong strategies across a diverse range of games. However, these strategies are usually difficult for humans to interpret. On the other hand, research in Explainable Artificial…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Satoru Fujii

This report presents Giraffe, a chess engine that uses self-play to discover all its domain-specific knowledge, with minimal hand-crafted knowledge given by the programmer. Unlike previous attempts using machine learning only to perform…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-09-15 Matthew Lai

To make deliberate progress towards more intelligent and more human-like artificial systems, we need to be following an appropriate feedback signal: we need to be able to define and evaluate intelligence in a way that enables comparisons…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-11-26 François Chollet

Strategic decision-making requires balancing immediate opportunities against long-term objectives: a tension fundamental to competitive environments. We investigate this trade-off in chess by analyzing the dynamics of human and AI gameplay…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Adamo Cerioli , Edward D. Lee , Vito D. P. Servedio

We propose InfoChess, a symmetric adversarial game that elevates competitive information acquisition to the primary objective. There is no piece capture, removing material incentives that would otherwise confound the role of information.…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Kieran A. Murphy

We introduce LLM CHESS, an evaluation framework designed to probe the generalization of reasoning and instruction-following abilities in large language models (LLMs) through extended agentic interaction in the domain of chess. We rank over…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Sai Kolasani , Maxim Saplin , Nicholas Crispino , Kyle Montgomery , Jared Quincy Davis , Matei Zaharia , Chi Wang , Chenguang Wang

Computer games play an important role in our society and motivate people to learn computer science. Since artificial intelligence is integral to most games, they can also be used to teach artificial intelligence. We introduce the Game AI…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2015-11-25 Mark O. Riedl

Chess has long been a testbed for AI's quest to match human intelligence, and in recent years, chess AI systems have surpassed the strongest humans at the game. However, these systems are not human-aligned; they are unable to match the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Yiming Zhang , Athul Paul Jacob , Vivian Lai , Daniel Fried , Daphne Ippolito

Gambits are central to human decision-making. Our goal is to provide a theory of Gambits. A Gambit is a combination of psychological and technical factors designed to disrupt predictable play. Chess provides an environment to study gambits…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2022-04-14 Shiva Maharaj , Nicholas Polson , Christian Turk

"The chance to win given a certain move" is an easily obtainable quantity from data and often quoted in gaming statistics. It is also the fundamental quantity that reinforcement learning AI bases on. Unfortunately, this conditional…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-03-16 I-Sheng Yang