ChatGPT got 'absolutely wrecked' in chess by 1977 Atari, then claimed it was unfair



OpenAI's artificial intelligence model was defeated by a nearly 50-year-old video game program.

Citrix software engineer Robert Caruso posted about the showdown between the AI and the old tech on LinkedIn, where he explained that he pitted OpenAI's ChatGPT against a 1970s chess emulator, meaning a version of the game ported into a computer.

'ChatGPT got absolutely wrecked on the beginner level.'

The chess game was simply titled Video Chess and was released in 1979 on the Atari 2600, which launched in 1977.

According to Caruso, ChatGPT was given a board layout to identify the chess pieces but quickly became confused, mistook "rooks for bishops," and repeatedly lost track of where the chess pieces were.

ChatGPT even blamed the Atari icons for its loss, claiming they were "too abstract to recognize."

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The AI chatbot did not fare any better after the game was switched to standard chess notation, either, and still made enough "blunders" to get "laughed out of a 3rd grade chess club," Caruso wrote on LinkedIn.

Caruso revealed not only that the AI performed especially poorly, but that it had actually requested to play the game.

"ChatGPT got absolutely wrecked on the beginner level. This was after a conversation we had regarding the history of AI in Chess which led to it volunteering to play Atari Chess. It wanted to find out how quickly it could beat a game that only thinks 1-2 moves ahead on a 1.19 MHz CPU."

Atari's decades-old tech humbly performed its duty using just an 8-bit engine, Caruso explained.

The engineer described Atari's gameplay as "brute-force board evaluation" using 1977-era "stubbornness."

"For 90 minutes, I had to stop [Chat GPT] from making awful moves and correct its board awareness multiple times per turn."

The OpenAI bot continued to justify its poor play, allegedly "promising" it would improve "if we just started over."

Eventually, the AI "knew it was beat" and conceded to the Atari program.

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The Atari 2600 was a landmark video game console known predominantly for games like Pong, but also Pac-Man and Indy 500.

By 1980, Atari had sold a whopping 8 million units, according to Medium.

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Russian chess champion allegedly caught on video trying to poison rival with mercury



A Russian chess champion has been accused of trying to poison her opponent during a recent tournament. The brazen move allegedly was caught on video.

Amina Abakarova, 40, faces a possible lifetime ban and potential criminal proceedings, NBC News reported.

'The actions she committed could have led to the saddest outcome.'

The incident occurred last Friday inside the tournament room of the Dagestan Chess Championship in Makhachkala, the capital of Russia's Republic of Dagestan.

Security video purportedly shows Abakarova entering the room with a bag about 20 minutes before the tournament was set to begin. The 34-second surveillance clip appears to show Abakarova spreading a substance over one of the chessboards.

Sazhid Sazhidov — Dagestan’s sports minister — released a statement on the Telegram messaging app Wednesday alleging that Abakarova, who has won the tournament before, spread a substance that later turned out to contain mercury, NBC News reported.

The Russian Chess Federation issued a statement Wednesday describing the situation as "an attempt to poison a participant in the championship of the Republic of Dagestan in Makhachkala."

The target of the alleged attempted poisoning was Abakarova's rival – 30-year-old Umayganat Osmanova.

About 30 minutes into a tournament match, Osmanova allegedly fell ill with nausea and dizziness. She reportedly required medical attention.

"I still feel bad. In the first minutes, I felt a lack of air and a taste of iron in my mouth. I had to spend about five hours on this board. I don’t know what would have happened to me if I hadn’t seen it earlier," Osmanova told Russia Today.

Osmanova added to Russian newspaper Izvestia that she noticed "some tiny balls" rolling out from under her board. She initially had no idea what they were but soon realized they could have been mercury, after which she notified chess officials.

Chess.com reported that Osmanova recovered from the alleged attempted poisoning and finished second in the tournament. Abakarova allegedly was expelled after the fourth round.

Russian outlet RTVI reported that Abakarova allegedly said she wanted to "knock her opponent out of the tournament." However, a police report claimed that Abakarova meant to scare her opponent and not actually harm her.

According to the New York Post, Abakarova later admitted to the poisoning and allegedly confessed to police that she had broken a thermometer and smeared mercury across the chessboard.

Police have detained Abakarova, who now faces up to three years in jail, according to the Mirror.

Andrey Filatov — president of the Russian Chess Federation — said the organization had temporarily suspended Abakarova from all competitions until a law enforcement investigation is completed.

ABC News reported that Sazhidov stated, "I am perplexed by what happened, and the motives that guided such an experienced athlete as Amina Abakarova are also incomprehensible to me."

"The actions she committed could have led to the saddest outcome. They threatened the lives of everyone who was in the chess house, including herself," Sazhidov added. "Now she will have to answer for what she did before the law."

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