Why LLMs Can't Play Chess (nicowesterdale.com)

I found the same with a number of LLMs playing scrabble. Absolute gibberish coming out of them. Almost better off getting it to design a proper scrabble engine, and then play against that!

No doubt that AI is useful, but not generally useful for everything.

LLMs can play chess, Gemini 3.1 Pro reaches an accuracy on 96.9 on chess.com and wins regularly against stockfish 18 set on elo 2000