{"slug": "watch-a-chess-transformer-think", "title": "Watch a chess transformer think", "summary": "A developer released a companion app that visualizes the internal workings of a chess transformer model, allowing users to explore attention heads and residual stream evolution as the model mimics human play.", "body_md": "This is a linkpost for\n\n[https://github.com/David-31415/chessformer_interp/blob/main/README.md](https://github.com/David-31415/chessformer_interp/blob/main/README.md)I was poking around at a chessformer which mimics human play and made this fun companion app to visualize a lot of the internals of the engine. Check out how attention heads look, how the residual stream evolves, and play around with it if interested!", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/watch-a-chess-transformer-think", "canonical_source": "https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/3fSFFQvdDu4ABWAbk/watch-a-chess-transformer-think", "published_at": "2026-07-15 00:43:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-15 00:59:29.938636+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "machine-learning", "neural-networks", "ai-tools"], "entities": ["David-31415"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/watch-a-chess-transformer-think", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/watch-a-chess-transformer-think.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/watch-a-chess-transformer-think.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/watch-a-chess-transformer-think.jsonld"}}