An curved arrow pointing right. There are endless possible ways to win a game of chess. But the "Fool's Mate," the fastest way to win a game of chess, is often an easy way to win against newcomers ...

This is because the technique rewards models for making whatever moves are necessary to achieve their goals—in this case, winning at chess. Non-reasoning LLMs use reinforcement learning to some ...

Researchers pitted the AI against Stockfish, a powerful open-source chess engine. But some models, including Open AI’s o1 ...