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ChatGPT 'got absolutely wrecked' by Atari 2600 in beginner's chess match — OpenAI's newest model bamboozled by 1970s logic (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 9 points 4 days ago (3 children)

There was a chess game for the Atari 2600? :O

I wanna see them W I D E pieces.

[–] FMT99@lemmy.world 17 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Prepare to be delighted. Full disclosure, my Atari isn't hooked up and also I don't have the Video Chess cart even if it was, so this was fetched from Google Images.

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[–] Beacon@fedia.io 9 points 4 days ago

I bet that's a slightly unfair representation of what it actually looked like. Graphics back then were purposely designed for how they would look on CRT tvs which add a lot of specific distortions to images. So taking a screenshot of a game running in an emulator without using a high quality crt filter added to the image will be a very untrue representation of what the game actually looked like.

(Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying it actually looked great when displayed correctly, but i am saying it would've looked considerably better than this emulator screenshot)

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 4 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Those are some funky looking knights lol

[–] SinningStromgald@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Never seen a snake/horse hybrid before?

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[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 3 points 4 days ago

There's some very odd pieces on high dollar physical chess sets too.

[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

I'm annoyed the pieces are bottom adjusted...

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

Can confirm.

And if you play it on expert mode, you can leave for college and get your degree before it’s your turn again.

[–] youngalfred@lemm.ee 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Here you go (online emulator): https://www.retrogames.cz/play_716-Atari2600.php

[–] over_clox@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

WTF? I just played that just long enough for my queen to take over their queen, and it turned my queen into a rook?

Is that even a legit rule in any variation of chess rules?

[–] over_clox@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

I wasn't aware of that either, now I'm kinda curious to try to find it in my 512 Atari 2600 ROMs archive..