Papers

• Chessformer: A Unified Architecture for Chess Modeling
  Daniel Monroe, George Eilender, Philip Chalmers, Zhenwei Tang, Ashton Anderson
  ICLR 2026
• New Lower Bounds for van der Waerden Numbers Using Distributed Computing
  Daniel Monroe
  Journal of Combinatorial Mathematics and Combinatorial Computing, 2025

Mechanistic interpretability research on Chessformer

• Evidence of Learned Look-Ahead in a Chess-Playing Neural Network
  Erik Jenner, Shreyas Kapur, Vasil Georgiev, Cameron Allen, Scott Emmons, Stuart Russell
  NeurIPS 2024
• Understanding the Learned Look-Ahead Behavior of Chess Neural Networks
  Diogo Cruz
  TMLR 2025
• The Algorithm Is Not the Behavior: Learned Priors Override Look-Ahead in a Chess-Playing Neural Network
  Elias Sandmann, Sebastian Lapuschkin, Wojciech Samek
  NeurIPS 2026 (Oral)
• Tracing the Thought of a Grandmaster-level Chess-Playing Transformer
  Rui Lin, Zhenyu Jin, Guancheng Zhou, Xuyang Ge, Wentao Shu, Jiaxing Wu, Junxuan Wang, Zhengfu He, Junping Zhang, Xipeng Qiu
  arXiv preprint, 2026