For Bomberland, we were quite surprised how strongly we could compress and quantize the current game state and still get useful movement predictions. I wouldn'

For Bomberland, we were quite surprised how strongly we could compress and quantize the current game state and still get useful movement predictions. I wouldn't be surprised if the relevant state in a typical beginner's chess game also excluded many units in the sense that yes, you could move them, but a beginner is going to just ignore them in any case.