https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtG0ACIbmHw

Sota LLMs do play legal moves in chess, I don't why the article seem to say otherwise.

Technically yes, but... it's moderately tricky to get an LLM to play good chess even though it can.

https://dynomight.net/more-chess/

This is significant in general because I personally would love to get these things to code-switch into "hackernews poster" or "writer for the Economist" or "academic philosopher", but I think the "chat" format makes it impossible. The inaccessibility of this makes me want to host my own LLM...