I just tried to play and the chatter didn't match the game-play (e.g. "Good capture Yellow" when yellow didn't just capture... Yellow said they were going to capture, and had a legal capture but started a new pile instead. [edit] I won without a single one of my chips being killed. This was only because the moves they actually made didn't match the moves the announced (i.e. they missed several capture possibilities),…
You're right about the state sync issues with some models. The lighter models (especially Llama) struggle with tracking game state. I've added more Gemini options which handle this better. The research data used controlled AI-vs-AI runs where we could validate state consistency.