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Beyond Search-Imitation: Prior-Directed Exploration for Searchless Chess

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arXiv:2608.27757v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Searchless chess networks reach human master strength from a single forward pass by imitating a stronger teacher: the strongest, Leela Chess Zero's (Lc0) released Chessformer, distills the visit counts of an AlphaZero-style Monte Carlo Tree Search (…

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    Beyond Search-Imitation: Prior-Directed Exploration for Searchless Chess

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