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Atari Video Chess checkmates Copilot after knocking over ChatGPT's king

erichs211@gmail.com (Eric Hal Schwartz) , Eric Hal Schwartz • July 11, 2025

When two of the most advanced AI models lost to a 1979 chess game, it exposed how sounding smart isn’t the same as actually thinking.

Microsoft Copilot has lost a game of chess to an Atari 2600.
The loss follows ChatGPT's similar loss in Atari’s Video Chess.
The AIs repeatedly lost track of the board state, … [+3864 chars]
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