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A former chess prodigy plays his own model to trace its reasoning

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Demis Hassabis, a former chess prodigy, plays chess against Gemini to trace its chain of thought, sensing when the model starts reasoning itself into trouble.

Reporting date: 2026-05-04 (not necessarily the event date)

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Welcome to May 4, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

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A former chess prodigy plays his own model to trace its reasoning
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Reporting date: 2026-05-04
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-05-04-a-prodigy-plays-chess-to-read-the-chain-of-thought
Claim: Demis Hassabis, a former chess prodigy, plays chess against Gemini to trace its chain of thought, sensing when the model starts reasoning itself into trouble.
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- Welcome to May 4, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-may-4-2026
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