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.

OpenAI's ChatGPT has some major competitors in the market: Gemini, Copilot, Claude. Add to that list: the Atari 2600.

Caruso switched to standard chess notation when ChatGPT complained about the Atari icons, but it continued to have difficulty with board awareness. The chatbot kept asking to start over and try ...