A cycle-exact emulation of the Atari 2600 CPU running at a meager 1.19 MHz is more than enough to utterly humiliate ChatGPT in a game of chess.

While the emulated Atari console's software wasn't exactly masterminding its own moves, they were enough to prove too much for ChatGPT. After an hour and a half, and even with Caruso helping ...

ChatGPT and its friends are great for researching, as assistants, or meme image creators, but if you need actual smarts, what you really want is a 1977-vintage Atari 2600 console.

An Atari 2600 chess cartridge has humiliated OpenAI's vaunted ChatGPT, highlighting the limits that large language models still face outside pure text. What Happened: Citrix engineer Robert Caruso ...

This debacle even kind of marked Atari’s 1983 decline. Still, Pac-Man survived the hiccup, evolving and outlasting its flawed adaptation on the 2600.

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.

Atari is proving that retro gaming isn’t just a nostalgic fling—it’s a full-on revival. In 2025, new cartridges for the Atari 2600 and 7800 are still being produced, fueled by the popularity ...

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.

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.

The Atari 2600 gaming console came into the world in 1977 with an eight-bit processor that ran at 1.19MhZ, and just 128 bytes of RAM – but that’s apparently enough power to beat ChatGPT at ...