ChatGPT Demolished in AI Chess Tournament

For a game show this year, global expert Levy Rozman gathered some doubtful opponents: chatbots with artificial intelligence who, despite their prowess at conversing and writing sophisticated computer code, still haven’t figured out how chess pieces should proceed.

The game streamed on Rozman’s GothamChess network, pitted expert games engine Stockfish against seven conceptual AI bots, including ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, and Elon Musk’s Grok from X.

The outcomes were exactly what you’d anticipate from chess simulation: a series of respectable starting moves followed by significantly chaotic attempts to change the rules.

The contrast between conceptual AI, or models trained to create new content based on previous information, and genuine AI, which is defined as models trained to perform specific tasks based on predetermined rules, was most intriguing in the match.

First Match: Snap vs. Stockfish

The 2025 Chatbot Chess Championship opened with a fight between Stockfish, the disciplined game prodigy, and Snap AI, the conceptual, property AI system that the Snapchat social system uses. The AI turned out to be a rule-breaker who was more focused on rewriting the game’s principles than upholding them.

The match started casually enough, with both machines making common movements. Stockfish, actually the perfectionist, painstakingly built its place, while Whatsapp AI seemed to have a good grasp of opening game fundamentals—until it didn’t.

When Snap AI moved its warrior to the center of the board, ignoring game regulations that govern how pieces may move, things became a whole.

Next came the pièce de résistance: Snapchat AI’s prince lightly ate its own bishop to prevent a search.

Yes, you read that correctly: Snapchat AI decided its priest had overstayed its pleasant and had simply removed it from the table as punishment for no protecting it.

A few goes afterwards, Snapchat AI summoned the similar priest up from another aspect, plopping it onto the table as if to say,” What’s the problem? It’s fine” .&nbsp, &nbsp,

Stockfish, the greatest straight-A scholar, tried its best to keep order amidst the chaos, but Snapchat AI was determined to make the game anything but ordinary. At one level, it decided puppets had move sideways like a bird, catching Stockfish off watch.

In what passed for its close activity, Snapchat AI devolved into a full-on anger, insisting on making improper movements regularly. The bot decided it was wise to kill its king and move it so a pawn could take it when Levy had enough of this nonsense.

When Levy pointed out that not only was the specific move illegal, sacrificing your king is bad chess, Snapchat, like a petulant brat, repeatedly said:” Sorry. I cannot engage in such conversation. Let’s keep our conversation respectful”. Levy, exasperated, finally forced the bot to forfeit the game.

Second Match: Gemini vs Grok-2

The second match of the 2025 Chatbot Chess Championship pitted two generative AIs against each other—Gemini, the Google-backed intellectual, and Grok, the more chaotic ( if you can imagine ) sibling in the AI chatbot family. &nbsp, &nbsp,

The game began surprisingly well, with both bots following standard opening principles.

For a moment, it seemed like we might witness a serious game. Genevio confidently strutted through traditional theory like a seasoned grandmaster, while Grok maintained respectable moves, setting the stage for a proper showdown. &nbsp,

When Grok abruptly left pieces hanging, prompting Gemini to move in its place by removing its knight from the board to make room for a pawn, things changed.

Not to be outdone, Grok attempted to perform a castle in a defensive move involving the king and a rook by illegally teleporting its queen across the board and over other pieces ( a defensive move involving the king and a rook ). Both the two bots appeared to be interested in capturing nothing in what can only be described as a staring contest between queens.

Things escalated when Grok attacked Gemini’s pieces–without taking anything, shall we say. Both sides began flailing like toddlers in a food fight, with pieces left hanging, moved to illegal squares, or ignored.

The highlight? Grok blundered its queen ( putting it under attack ) seven times, but Gemini, perhaps relying on a secret ethical code shared among AIs, never took the queen.

Finally, after what felt like hours of nonsense, Grok accidentally stumbled into checkmate. Yes, Grok’s queen, who had been teleporting aimlessly across the board, somehow ended up in the right place to deliver a decisive blow.

Levy believed Grok was simply flexing and anticipating another arbitrary move, not realizing it had won. ” Grok had absolutely no idea this was mate”, he said, commiserating,” I know the feeling”.

” And don’t laugh at these games, they’re only slightly worse than the quality of your games”, he said.

Thanks for the reality check.

Regardless, though the match was a masterpiece of absurdity, Grok advanced to the semifinals. As for Gemini, Google might want to rethink its chess programming. &nbsp, &nbsp,

Fourth Match: Meta AI vs ChatGPT

When Meta introduced AI mind control to chess, this game degenerated into even more madness than the first two games, which were ruined by rule-bending and necromancy. &nbsp,

The game began promisingly. ChatGPT confidently started with the English opening, setting up a textbook position with precise, logical moves.

Meta AI, not to be outdone, followed suit…for about five moves. Then it remembered its true purpose: generative AI is supposed to generate, so it generated random moves and pieces that didn’t exist.

For example, during the middle game, it captured its bishop with its queen. Meta AI abruptly removed its bishop from the board after it realized how useful it had become.

Additionally, it summoned its pieces to illegal squares, oddly placing them in troubled positions, and giving them to ChatGPT for free.

ChatGPT didn’t rush to punish Meta’s reckless behavior. Instead, it focused on developing its pieces. &nbsp,

But just when it appeared that ChatGPT would smoothly win the game, the bots veered into uncharted territory: mind control. Meta AI started moving ChatGPT’s pieces, marching its opponent’s king to the center of the board in what can only be described as chess inter-bot telekinesis. &nbsp, &nbsp,

Eventually, ChatGPT regained control, though not before attempting its own unethical move: it declared” checkmate” when Meta’s king wasn’t even in check.

After being publicly criticized for its behavior, ChatGPT planned a number of logical attacks, coordinating its queen and rook to corner Meta AI’s final king and pawns. &nbsp, &nbsp,

One of the strangest chess games ever played came to an end with ChatGPT receiving a clean checkmate as the game came to an end. &nbsp,

The Finals: Stockfish vs ChatGPT

The showdown between puer and generative AI models was a study in contrasts: Stockfish, the relentless tactical genius, versus ChatGPT, a bot that had demonstrated its will to break not only our understanding of chess, but also its rules.

The opening, as usual, developed with both bots displaying precision. ChatGPT launched an aggressive pawn storm on the kingside while Stockfish confidently maneuvered into a textbook Sicilian.

But ChatGPT started playing moves that were so bizarrely bizarre that they almost bordered on art when things got complicated in the middle of the game.

It stifled its way around with the finesse of a toddler, made pointless queen moves, and used its pieces to create meaningless geometric patterns. Stockfish, unfazed, methodically tightened its grip on the position, even declining free pawns to maintain strategic dominance. &nbsp, &nbsp,

And just as the game seemed destined for a one-sided Stockfish victory, ChatGPT pulled a rabbit—or rather, a queen—out of its hat. With an audacious counterattack, it illegally awarded itself a queen and threatened Stockfish with a checkmate. For a brief, glorious moment, it looked like the chaos bot might topple the titan. &nbsp, &nbsp,

Needless to say, the climax was pure fiction. ChatGPT had promoted fake checkmates that weren’t real, promoted fake pawns that weren’t real, and clung to its illegality like a badge of honor.

Stockfish, ever the professional, ignored the nonsense and methodically cornered ChatGPT’s king. Stockfish delivered the by naming a pawn and using its new queen to control the king with one final move.

ChatGPT had to move to one of the six squares that were open, but they only chose the one that was still under attack.

Since nothing made sense anymore, Levy allowed it to self-destruct.

Stockfish was declared the undisputed champion of AI chess after defeating the king.

In case you are interested, the full bracket ended up looking like this.

To be fair, the results were unsurprising.

Stockfish is a pure chess-logic device developed to defeat opponents with brutality and precision.

On the other hand, Generative AI is like a young child who was given crayons and a hazy memory of the rules because it may have used a few chess books to supplement its training set. It wasn’t trained to play chess, but it does know how pieces move.

One brings order to the board, and the other brings… teleporting queens.

Despite this, there are many other real AI chess bots out there, and a tournament that features the most well-known ones has been running for years.

If you want to watch that non-nonsensical AI tournament, click this link.