This is not just another blog post about chess—or at least, not only about chess. While the setting involves Stockfish, the world’s strongest open-source chess engine, the real discussion here is broader: How do we carefully assess inconsistencies in complex AI systems? When an AI model—or a highly optimized program—seems to violate fundamental expectations, how do we tell the difference between a genuine bug and an artifact of the evaluation setup? These questions brought me to the p...
