AI Engineer YouTube · May 13, 2026

Building a Chess Coach — Anant Dole and Asbjorn Steinskog, Take Take Take

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Why it matters

LLMs can explain things clearly but can't play chess reliably. Take Take Take (Magnus Carlsen's app) solved this by separating concerns: Stockfish handles position evaluation, tactical and positional detectors extract concepts like forks, pins, and structural weaknesses, and the LLM's only job is translating those stru

My takeaway: LLMs can explain things clearly but can't play chess reliably. Take Take Take (Magnus Carlsen's app) solved this by separating concerns: Stockfish handles position evaluation, tactical and positional detectors extract concepts like forks, pins, and structural weaknesses, and the LLM's only job is translating those stru