Astra Plays Chess: Blunders and Resigns, Retries at Higher Effort

MikePFrank tested Astra playing chess directly against an intermediate bot: it kept pace early on but blundered repeatedly and resigned; he then retried at Extra High effort, noting LLMs can also write their own chess engines.

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