OpenAI's Astra Blunders in Chess: Bishop Retreated to d3 Gets Trapped
MikePFrank · x · 2026-09-08
Mike Frank documents OpenAI's new Astra model blundering in a chess game: it retreated its bishop to d3, which he predicts will get trapped and die. Wally then advanced the b-pawn followed by an exchange on b5, moving toward exactly that fate — another chess fail from a frontier model.
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