Designed with magnetic docking, the robotic arm locks securely into place on the Manya Cynus board in one smooth move.

The three-day AI chess battle is the first in a series of tournaments set to be hosted by Google’s data science community Kaggle, within a newly developed Game Arena.

Robert Caruso, an engineer at Citrix, organised the game between the AI and a simple 1977 chess program released for the Atari 2600.

Digital Chess has been a part of my life for almost as long, starting with Boris, the Chess computer that I played to death, and continuing in 1986 or so with Kasparov Pocket Chess from SciSys.

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.

An almost 50-year-old Atari Chess game left both Microsoft Copilot and ChatGPT LLM chatbots in defeat against 4KB of ancient technology.