Can GPT really play chess?

There are claims that have gone viral that an early GPT model, GPT-3.5-turbo-instruct, can beat the Stockfish program at chess when Stockfish is playing at an ELO 1800 rating.

Can you play chess without knowing the rules? LLM can !

GitHub - atomic14/gpt-chess: Play chess against ChatGPT

Can Chat GPT Play chess?. Beating GPT3.5 in a Chess Match using a…, by Octavio Santiago, Dec, 2023

Chess robot grabs and breaks finger of seven-year-old opponent, Chess

Playing Chess - LLMs and Actual Chess AIs - by Ariel

Runechess (3D Fantasy Chess Game) Alpha / POC - Demos and projects - Babylon.js

Stockfish vs. GPT-4 (Bing AI) in a Game of Chess in a Game of Chess (Got Angry!)

ChatGPT is great, just not at chess - IO

New OpenAI language model gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct can defeat Lichess Stockfish level 5 : r/chess

Sydney can play chess and kind of keep track of the board state — LessWrong

All the important games artificial intelligence has conquered - TechTalks