Tau Chess — a chess engine that cannot bluff
A chess engine whose every move is decided by logic, not estimated by a network. Shortcuts that make the search faster are admitted only with a decided proof that they never change the result. It plays frontier language models live, in public, and shows its own view of the position as it thinks.
What it learns, it learns from its own games, under a gate that is decided before any change is accepted. Games against language models are a measure of strength, never training material.
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- PaperThe Admitted Shortcutdoi:10.5281/zenodo.23165449 · 7 Oct 2026
- PaperLearning under a Decided Gatedoi:10.5281/zenodo.23208550 · 7 Oct 2026
- StatusPlaying. Public results above. Parts of the method are patent pending.