2026-06-11 · paper-review
Feng et al.: Can AI Generate Counter-Intuitive Chess Puzzles? — Fukai Reads
A study, led by a Google DeepMind team, on generating creative chess puzzles with AI. A generative model trained on Lichess data is tuned with reinforcement learning, raising the rate of counter-intuitive puzzles from 0.22% to 2.5% (about tenfold). The highlight is how they reduce creativity to numbers a machine can measure.