Span-02 sweeps chess engine Jev 12-0 with reasoning off, community asked to verify
victormustar · x · 2026-10-17
Span-02, a new model from RespanAI now on Hugging Face, claims a 12–0 sweep against chess engine Jev — with reasoning turned off.
victormustar amplified the claim asking who has tried it. The model card shows a Google Gemma-style chat template with tool-calling and thinking-order handling. Real strength awaits community verification, but the chess record alone is eye-catching.
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