LegumMagister/chsm8-player-sindarov

CHSM8 player model: Javokhir Sindarov

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

• Data: 1,371 unique games (chess.com + lichess); held-out val 171 / test 171 games = the player's most recent games (from 2025-12-13), 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)	0.5575	0.5668
move-match top-3	-	0.7938
cross-entropy on the player's moves	2.9594	2.8975

Strength: 1897 (95% CI 1878-1916, 998 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.