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Comment by jonathanstrange | Hacker News Reader

Not to nitpick but I don't think it can be said to be able to play chess when it also makes illegal moves.

Humans make illegal moves too. So much that there's a rule for it--

"Penalty for Illegal Moves The penalty for the first illegal move is to add two minutes to the opponent's time. A second illegal move results in loss of the game.".

https://new.uschess.org/sites/default/files/media/documents/...

Not even total beginners will try to move pieces that don't exist though.

How many people change the colour of the enemy queen and place new pieces on the board?

When it makes an illegal move, and is told "that's an illegal move, choose a different move," if it can then come up with a different move for the same board, I'd say it plays chess.

ai isn't to be used completely raw as text. you can ask gpt to write a python program that filters its responses for legal moves. then it's a matter of rendering the output (immediate execution) in a richer format than raw text.

I did. It write 15-20 lines and then finished the functions with this:

" # Add more cases for other piece types such as rooks, knights, bishops, queens, and kings. # ... "

So not great..

But even if it wasn't so lazy it would just find a script (or multiple scripts) which say that they do that. Probably combine them or add some minor stuff and output the result.

It can't really verify that data it used to come up with this result is accurate or reason about it in any way? Can it?

So if you're incapable of verifying that yourself it would be pretty useless?

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