GPT-6 Astra vs Opus 5.5: The End Of Chess
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Ladies and gentlemen, in this video I will be showing you two games where I have paired two of the most popular AIs in the world against each other in chess. Chad GBT and Claude. But this is no ordinary twoame match. Because for many years, Chad GBT, Claude, and others have been laughable at chess. Hilarious.
illegal moves. Seven dimensions, pieces flying all over the board. They're now good. That's that's as good as I can say it. And these two games are fantastic. In case you're missing this miniseries, I've made now three videos in a row here in October 2026. So, whenever you're watching in 2027 or beyond, there's
probably 12th or 18th version of one of these things. So, without further ado, uh let us get into this little two game set. Now, GPT6 Astra did lose to Fable. It did, but the thing about Fable is that it it it was a little slower than Opus. Like, it Opus played much faster.
Astra played at the at the highest level of thinking. Uh, and and I thought, okay, maybe Opus because it's kind of an everyday thing, like it's going to be a little bit faster, be more prone to mistakes. I'm going to show you these two games and then we're going to do guess the ELO. I asked both of them to
estimate their ratings. Game number one opens with D4. Allow me to turn on the P sounds. I recently disconnected my headphones. Uh, and so it doesn't follow. So D4 from GPT Astra. I asked it to play D4 because if you allow them to play the move E4, they're going to get a million Sicilians. A million Sicilians.
What a rhyme. Knight to F6 from Claude Opus. Honorary Grandmaster title. C4. Main line E6. Now again for the first 10 moves of these games these two are going to play mainline known theory. Theory in chess is where the players uh like grand masters have gone many many times over and over and
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