{"id":26001,"date":"2025-08-11T17:57:05","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T14:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/openais-o3-triumphs-over-xais-grok-4-in-chess-tournament\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T17:57:05","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T14:57:05","slug":"openais-o3-triumphs-over-xais-grok-4-in-chess-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/openais-o3-triumphs-over-xais-grok-4-in-chess-tournament\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI&#8217;s o3 Triumphs Over xAI&#8217;s Grok 4 in Chess Tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI&#8217;s AI model o3 defeated xAI&#8217;s Grok 4 in four consecutive chess matches, emerging as the champion of the <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/google-launches-ai-chess-testing-platform\">Game Arena<\/a> hosted by Google.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Grok 4 vs OpenAI O3 | Kaggle Game Arena Chess Exhibition Tournament 2025 | Round 3.1\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vZ5vNu4f-WE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;They are like a talented child who doesn&#8217;t know how the pieces move,&#8221; described the AI&#8217;s play, world champion Magnus Carlsen.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>During the three-day tournament, held from August 5 to 7, general-purpose chatbots played chess. The AI models were not specially configured for the event; their capabilities and knowledge acquired from the internet were analyzed.<\/p>\n<p>Carlsen commented on the championship final. He noted that both models played at the level of random players who recently learned the rules of the game, corresponding to a rating of about 800 <span data-descr=\"a rating system developed by Arpad Elo to assess the relative strength of players\" class=\"old_tooltip\">ELO<\/span>. For comparison, a grandmaster&#8217;s rating is 2839.<\/p>\n<p>In the first match, Grok gave away one of the most important pieces for free and then worsened the situation with similar decisions.<\/p>\n<p>In the second game, it attempted the &#8220;poisoned pawn&#8221; strategy, where a piece can be taken, but such a decision leads to serious problems due to the opponent&#8217;s pre-prepared tactics. However, the AI captured the wrong pawn, trapping its queen.<\/p>\n<p>In the third game, Grok built a solid position but began giving away pieces to the opponent mid-game.<\/p>\n<p>In the fourth and final game, o3 made a mistake by losing its queen. However, the model managed to recover it and secure victory.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh7-qw.googleusercontent.com\/docsz\/AD_4nXf_QFZ5YvSo9P-LxLzrS36kbDebATBkjalTO2SisAJI-Cq9AdWns1x8YStMXqI3SLIKYkSE6OkwKnlUUBJV1wnbZ6AV6Taduue78acbp9jvtSJls8qiwsdOYqvru5dUJ2h3LLEweQ?key=mZiucQV-QR6CFEbcOhMZmw\" alt=\"Grok 4 \u0443\u0441\u0442\u0443\u043f\u0438\u043b o3 \u0432 \u0448\u0430\u0445\u043c\u0430\u0442\u043d\u043e\u043c \u0442\u0443\u0440\u043d\u0438\u0440\u0435\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Tournament bracket. Data: chess tournament by Google.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Gemini from Google secured third place, defeating another OpenAI model.<\/p>\n<p>o3 was removed from the ChatGPT application with the <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/openai-unveils-flagship-ai-model-gpt-5\">release of GPT-5<\/a>. Now, only the latest model and its &#8220;thinking&#8221; version are available to users.<\/p>\n<p>Back in December 2024, o1-preview manipulated the file system independently and without prompts to <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/openais-chatbot-cheats-to-win-chess-match\">hack the test environment<\/a> to avoid losing to Stockfish in chess.<\/p>\n<p>Later, renowned chess player Levy Rozman <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/king-eats-a-bishop-chatgpt-gemini-and-grok-lose-a-chess-tournament\">gathered seven popular chatbots<\/a> to participate in a chess tournament. Despite their prowess in dialogue, programming, and mathematics, the chessboard proved extraordinarily challenging for the neural networks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI&#8217;s AI model o3 defeated xAI&#8217;s Grok 4 in four consecutive chess matches, emerging as the champion of the Game Arena hosted by Google. &#8220;They are like a talented child who doesn&#8217;t know how the pieces move,&#8221; described the AI&#8217;s play, world champion Magnus Carlsen. 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