O3 mini vs. Gemini flash 2.0 in chess

Click on 'Play moves' to watch a replay.

I initially planned to run a chess tournament for LLMs but they are not good: besides obvious mistakes, they output incorrect moves, get stuck in loops by repeating the same moves and the smaller models fail to output valid json frequently. I thought the reasoning models like o3 mini might be good, but they are an incremental improvement in chess.

Feedback and suggestions for other games to explore welcome.