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Mica v0.1 4B beat Laya by checkmate in 25 moves, and it never outputs a token, it just scores the moves

I've been working on two small decision models, Mica and Laya, and wanted to see how they'd do against each other in something with a clear winner, so I had them play chess. Mica is a LoRA fine-tune of Qwen3.5-4B, running as Q5_K_M on llama.cpp on a single 3090. Laya is ModernBERT-large, about 421M…

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  1. 2026-09-25 18:48 · r/LocalLLM
    Mica v0.1 4B beat Laya by checkmate in 25 moves, and it never outputs a token, it just scores the moves

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