LegumMagister/chsm8-player-fischer

CHSM8 player model: Bobby Fischer

LegumMagister/chsm8-player-base fine-tuned to play like Bobby Fischer: supervised next-move prediction on Bobby Fischer's own moves only (the opponent's moves are context, not targets).

• Data: 660 unique games (PGN Mentor (classical OTB)); held-out val 83 / test 82 games = the player's most recent games (from 1970), never trained on.
• Recipe (chosen on Nakamura from SFT / LoRA / DPO / SFT->DPO ablations; best held-out move-match within an Elo guard): full fine-tune, AdamW lr 3e-5, cosine, 2 passes over the unique games, batch 32 x 512, 1 GPU.

Results (player's own moves, held-out test games)

	base (chsm8-player-base)	this model
move-match (top-1 = move played)	0.5724	0.5671
move-match top-3	-	0.7844
cross-entropy on the player's moves	2.9688	2.8906

Strength: 1875 (95% CI 1855-1894, 999 games) vs Stockfish 17.1 UCI_Elo 2000 (0.05 s/move).

Limitations: imitates the moves in the available games (mostly online blitz/rapid for active players, classical OTB for historical ones); it is not the player and does not reproduce their strength.

Usage

The checkpoint is a PyTorch dict (model_state_dict, cfg) for the CHSM8 decoder (factored move head over (kind, src, dst, piece, promo)). Moves are fed as factored rows, BOS first; there is no text input, and play picks the best legal move by summed factored log-probability. The model classes and the loading and play code will be released later with the project code.