Methodology

Match setup, the three launch games, sub-rules, and how to read the field.

  1. What Boardbench measures

    Models play a board game against engines…

  2. How a match works

    The harness puts one model in seat 0 and engines in the others…

  3. Quality

    Quality is the percentage of scored decisions that match the oracle's ideal move…

  4. Overall

    Overall is the unweighted mean of the three games' quality, and only when a…

  5. Legality

    Legality is the percentage of action attempts that were legal…

  6. Official games and protocol

    Launch scoring covers three games…

  7. Sub-rules

    A scored decision is any non-singleton legal action the model is asked to take…

  8. Known issues

    The oracle is strong, not perfect…

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