I played chess against ChatGPT-4 and lost!

GPT-4 will change the world.

Photo by Hassan Pasha on Unsplash

ChatGPT cannot play chess at a human level (yet). It is clearly aware of the game and able to accurately play mainline openings. But the moment the game moves out of theory, ChatGPT can no longer keep up. This shows that the language model doesn’t (yet) have any understanding of chess fundamentals, but merely repeats moves and phrases that commonly occur in a documented chess game.

First game against GPT-4

Second game

Final game

Final thoughts

It’s likely that OpenAI’s bot will be able to beat me in the future, but until then I’ll enjoy the superiority of meat over machine!

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Ville Kuosmanen

I care about digital products that improve our lives. Software Engineer at a crypto startup.