Recently, a chess player used the Rabbit R1 device to analyse and strategise his next moves. In a surprising turn, the LLM-powered device recommended the London System opening. This innovation in chess strategy is not new. Even Viswanathan Anand, the Indian chess grandmaster and former five-time World Chess Champion, has been experimenting with ChatGPT to elucidate chess moves and develop training exercises.
At MLDS 2024, India’s biggest generative AI summit, Anand spoke at length about the applications of AI in chess, its potential use cases, limitations, and the impact it would have on the game. “Chess is still a human game,” said Anand, adding that it can never replace humans, even though it is getting better at it.
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