The Atari 2600 playing “Video Chess” is, on the other hand, the right tool for the job. Atari Chess only plays chess. Like most things in life, knowledge simply cannot make up for ability.

Now add to that list the Atari 2600. The OG video game console, which was first released in 1977, was used in an engineer's experiment to see how it would fare playing chess against the AI chatbot.

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.

Add to that list: the Atari 2600. The OG video game console, which was first released in 1977, was used in an engineer's experiment to see how it would fare playing chess against the AI chatbot.

An attempt to switch to standard chess notation also did not help: OpenAI's language model "forgot" previous moves, made gross errors and could not play the game stably. The Atari 2600 is a cult ...

Launched in 1977, the Atari 2600 — also marketed at the time as the Atari Video Computer System — popularized at-home gaming after Atari released its " Pong " console two years prior. Still, that ...