I find a way to systematically force a win in 4 moves against the last release of OpenAI (ChatGPT-4o) and in 7 moves against the best GPT at chess gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct, estimated at 1750 Elo. Clickbait: you don’t need to master chess to beat GPTs, you can well be 700 Elo, just follow the moves ;-) The story behind the discovery is interesting and worth sharing. I also discuss the generalization of the results and the implications for the future of GPTs and chess. Don’t fear the clickbai...
