ChatGPT gets crushed at chess by a 1 MHz Atari 2600

ChatGPT gets crushed at chess by a 1 MHz Atari 2600 | TechSpot

A cycle-exact emulation of the Atari 2600 CPU running at a meager 1.19 MHz is more than enough to utterly humiliate ChatGPT in a game of chess....

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ChatGPT challenged a cycle‐exact Atari 2600 chess emulator (running at a tiny 1.19 MHz) and lost spectacularly. Citrix engineer Robert Jr. Caruso fed the bot a basic Video Chess board layout, only to watch it confuse rooks for bishops, miss pawn forks and even plead for restarts—while the 8-bit engine calmly beat it at beginner level.

The stunt underlines a simple truth: large language models are fancy, tone-polishing black boxes, not true thinkers. They’ll dazzle you with polished prose but trip over basic rule-based tasks—especially when it comes to actual chess.