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What Counts as Strategic Reasoning? A Systematic Mapping of Chess Research on Humans, Engines, and Language Models
Chess has long served as a model domain for studying search, expertise, decision-making, and artificial intelligence. The emergence of large language models (LLMs) has renewed the relevance of chess as a controlled environment for investigating strategic reasoning and comparing human and artificial decision-making. We present a systematic mapping study of recent research spanning human players, classical chess engines, neural and reinforcement-learning systems, LLMs, and hybrid approaches. The final map comprises 84 core study families, classified according to agent type, strategic-reasoning s
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- arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · 2026-09-16T08:06:57.000Z
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