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Ville Kuosmanen
Personal blog · villekuosmanen.medium.comaiculture
Ville Kuosmanen's personal blog at villekuosmanen.medium.com covers ai and culture. Since 2021, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “I played chess against ChatGPT-4 and lost”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-04-23, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Ville Kuosmanen's Medium post about playing chess against ChatGPT-4 as evidence of how well LLMs play chess, and discuss the author's own playing strength.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- I played chess against ChatGPT-4 and lost2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-03-19
What Hacker News says?
If you've checked the author's previous post [1], you'll see that he admits to being 1200 Elo on chess.com, which is beginner / early-intermediate level. So him losing to GPT-4 may not mean much. Maybe that explains the supposed contradiction here. [1] https://villekuosmanen.medium.com/i-played-chess-against-cha...
Comment linking /i-played-chess-against-chatgpt-4c2cc78b5acf
on “I played chess against ChatGPT-4 and lost”Submitted I played chess against ChatGPT-4 and lost as a story · 3 points
HN discussionIt's funny you say that because ChatGPT knows how to play chess although it wasn't explicitly trained for that[0]. The "if it can do this, soon it will be able to do that" is actually becoming real. [0] https://villekuosmanen.medium.com/i-played-chess-against-cha...
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