Chess-Nut-Engine/chess-qwen35-0.8b-sft-v2-20260709
chess-qwen35-0.8b-sft-v2-20260709
Qwen3.5-0.8B (Gated-DeltaNet hybrid) — v2 curriculum run on the data-v2 revision of chess-sft-corpus-4x: in-check oversampling (~30%), checkevasion + candidate-compare-trace tasks, label-quality caps, and a ~9%/phase general-instruction mix (smoltalk2) for reasoning preservation. 2M examples/phase A->B->C on 2x H100 (16x2048 + gradient checkpointing). `phasec is the final model. v1 baseline: Chess-Nut-Engine/chess-qwen35-0.8b-sft-abc-20260708`.
Headline results (vs the v1 baseline's phase C)
v2 trades a few points of aggregate chess accuracy for a dramatic recovery of general reasoning (the v1 model answered every input with chess-task grammar) plus durable fixes to in-check legality — making this the preferred seed for the RL (GRPO/SDPO) phase. Full analysis in the repo's docs/experiments/2026-07-09_v2_run/README.md.
Usage
from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer
m = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
"Chess-Nut-Engine/chess-qwen35-0.8b-sft-v2-20260709",
subfolder="phase_c", trust_remote_code=True)
t = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(
"Chess-Nut-Engine/chess-qwen35-0.8b-sft-v2-20260709",
subfolder="phase_c")<move>/</move> are tokenizer special tokens. Planning prompts use the <think>...</think><move>uci</move> protocol.
