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#VideoChess for the #AtariVCS is a monument to an era when programmers could not waste resources, but instead made the impossible possible through pure genius and clever tricks. The search algorithm, masterfully squeezed into the cartridge, works so precisely that it still makes headlines even in the 21st century. A journey through the beginnings of chess programming that shows just how much timeless developer art is hidden inside this cartridge.

https://www.goodolddays.net/en/game/Video-Chess/

It seems that, at least for a while, Video Chess on the #Atari 2600 can beat #ChatGPT at #chess.
A slight correction for the article: the 2600's processor has 0 FLOPS. It doesn't do floating point. A game could still manage such computations, but why?
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/chatgpt-got-absolutely-wrecked-by-atari-2600-in-beginners-chess-match-openais-newest-model-bamboozled-by-1970s-logic
#Atari2600 #VideoChess #AI

I was thinking back to a year ago when I made the #Atari2600 / #AtariVCS #VideoChess play Chess.com at a game of Chess. Of course the #Atari lost.

I had to move the game from real hardware to emulation because a move could take up to 10 hours on real hardware. It was a fun experiment though. #retrogaming https://twitter.com/TomatoCheese/status/1467810216515633154?s=20&t=CoWQvL9QLOHSTPhnNdD3pw