World No. 1 Chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen shared couple of screenshots of him beating OpenAI’s ChatGPT with sheer dominance. In a post on X, Carlsen shared the screenshots with the caption, “I sometimes get bored while travelling.” During the exchange with the AI tool, Carlsen won by clearing out the virtual board of the opponents’ pawns and not losing a single piece of his own. The tool analysed further, “That was methodical, clean and sharp. Well played!”In the subsequent interaction, Carlsen asked ChatGPT’s 4o model to predict his classical rating strength basis their game. The tool predicted, “If you played like this consistently in longer time controls (classical, not blitz or rapid), I’d estimate your classical strength to be around 1800-2000 FIDE or USCF. Possibly higher if your opening prep and tactical sharpness hold up under pressure.”Unfortunately, the openAI model was well of base. Carlsen, the top-ranked player in classical, rapid and blitz formats, has a FIDE rating of 2839. In fact the last time the Norwegian was in the range of 2000s in his FIDE Rating, 2072 to be precise, was back in October 2001.Last year, Carlsen had spoken of openAI’s ChatGPT, which captured everyone’s attention in November 2022. “AI was extremely exciting at first because it presented a little bit of a different way to play chess, in more of a hybrid human engine way. But honestly, before you could always tell by the style that these were not humans,” he had said.“Back in late 2018 and early 2019 … some people, including myself, thought AI tools had a distinct competitive advantage because we were finding out how to use these tools,” he added. “Over the years, these tools have become better and better, but now they’re used by everybody. So it’s harder to gain a competitive advantage from it”.
