Astra (Extra High) loses to chess.com's 1300 ELO bot Nelson in live test
MikePFrank · x · 2026-09-06
Mike Frank tested Astra unaided at the Extra High setting and found it loses to chess.com's Nelson bot (ELO 1,300), then retried with Ultra mode. He also let the model instrument itself with a single-move board visualization capability to help it avoid obvious blunders — a vivid case of a frontier model struggling with spatial/state reasoning.
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