An engineer toying around with ChatGPT found OpenAI's apparently world-leading LLM getting a little bolshy about how it would do at chess. In fact, ChatGPT itself asked Citrix engineer Robert Caruso to set it up against a basic chess program to see "how quickly" it would win: and then proceeded to get battered by an Atari 2600.
First things first: chess engines are now unquestionably superior to human players, and an off-the-shelf program like Stockfish will handily trounce the best in the world. There are also AI-based chess engines from the likes of DeepMind. And ChatGPT 4o, the latest model, may be a leader in LLMs—but it is not a chess engine.
