I don’t think so. Hahaha! But it’s important, there’s no such thing as intelligence if you don’t know your own limits!

> Gemini first told Caruso it would almost certainly dominate Atari Chess “because it is not a mere large language model.”

optimism

, it stopped boasting and packed up its pawns

Google’s Gemini chatbot declined to play Chess against the Atari 2600, after learning the vintage gaming console had already vanquished other AIs.

Robert Caruso, the infrastructure architect who pitted Atari Chess and its feeble hardware against ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot, told The Register readers have asked him if Google’s Gemini could do any better.

> **Warned that ChatGPT and Copilot had [already lost](https://stacker.news/items/1002092), it stopped boasting and packed up its pawns**
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> Google’s Gemini chatbot declined to play Chess against the Atari 2600, after learning the vintage gaming console had already vanquished other AIs.
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> Robert Caruso, the infrastructure architect who pitted Atari Chess and its feeble hardware against ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot, told The Register readers have asked him if Google’s Gemini could do any better.
>
> **[...read more at theregister.com](https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/14/atari_chess_vs_gemini/)**