Why isnt the chess benchmark more mainstream?

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I saw it like a couple weeks or maybe a couple months ago and at the time it felt like a good way to benchmark models and have them fight against each other too. What was the reasoning it didnt become mainstream?

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2026-09-07 12:01 · r/LocalLLaMA
Why isnt the chess benchmark more mainstream?

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