In a unique experiment, an engineer pitted the latest ChatGPT 4o model against his Atari 2600's chess engine on the beginner difficulty level, and ChatGPT got handily defeated, eventually conceding.

In a post on LinkedIn, Citrix software engineer Robert Caruso explained how the OpenAI chatbot "got absolutely wrecked" by an Atari 2600 running Atari Chess, a game for the system released in 1979 ...

World number one Magnus Carlsen defeated ChatGPT at a Freestyle Chess Grand Slam side event in Las Vegas while seated with his back to the board, even allowing the AI to make several illegal moves.