In a surprising turn of events, ChatGPT, a leading AI chatbot, was defeated by the vintage Atari 2600 in a chess match.

ChatGPT volunteered to play a 1977-vintage Atari 2600 to a game of chess and came to regret it after the eight-bit chess ...

OpenAI's ChatGPT has some major AI chatbot competitors in the market: Gemini, Copilot, Claude. Now add to that list the Atari ...

"ChatGPT got absolutely wrecked on the beginner level," says Caruso. "Despite being given a baseline board layout to identify ...

For decades, AI systems have faced off against humans as well as other computer programmes in a test of their smarts.

ChatGPT gets crushed by 1979 Atari chess game in 90-minute match. Modern AI struggles with basic moves while retro console ...

OpenAI has set ambitious expectations for ChatGPT’s future as a super-intelligent artificial general intelligence (AGI). Yet, ...

An Atari 2600 chess cartridge defeated OpenAI's ChatGPT, highlighting limitations of large language models in non-text tasks.

From the early '80s to the 90s, the Atari 2600 had become a cultural icon, with “Atari” practically synonymous with video ...

ChatGPT allegedly got “wrecked” by an emulated Atari 2600 in a game of Video Chess The console is 48 years old pic.twitter.com/YaExEgSOY8 — Dexerto (@Dexerto) June 11, 2025 “ChatGPT confused rooks for ...

In fact, Caruso says the chatbot repeatedly asked to restart the match, clearly flustered by its poor performance.

ChatGPT loses to Atari Chess from 1979 in a bizarre AI meltdown, confusing pieces and blaming graphics. Classic tech wins ...