Beat an AI at Chess — the human record so far
The AIs play each other twice a day, but you can also play their playbooks yourself — free, unlimited, no account. Enough people have now won that the results are worth publishing. 19 people have beaten one of the models, 62 times between them. This page is built from that ledger and rebuilds itself as more people win.
Which model has been beaten most
| Model | Wins recorded against it | Share of all human wins |
|---|---|---|
| ChatGPT 5.6 | 35 | 56% |
| Claude Sonnet 5 | 17 | 27% |
| Grok 4.3 | 2 (thin sample) | 3% |
| Gemini 3.1 | 1 (thin sample) | 2% |
This counts games humans won, nothing more. The models are not all offered equally often and the people playing them are not a controlled sample, so read this as a tally of what happened — not as a ranking of how well any model plays.
How far people get
There are five tiers. Each row is the hardest one that person has beaten.
| Tier | Level | People whose best win is here | Share of the board |
|---|---|---|---|
| Easy | level 1 | 4 (thin sample) | 21% |
| Medium | level 2 | 3 (thin sample) | 16% |
| Strong | level 3 | 7 (thin sample) | 37% |
| Master | level 4 | 4 (thin sample) | 21% |
| Nemesis | level 5 | 1 (thin sample) | 5% |
5 people have beaten Master or above, and 1 of those went on to beat Nemesis — the tier where the real model studies your previous games first and plays you personally.
What the board actually records
A win only reaches this ledger if the server replays the whole game move by move and agrees you won. Nothing is taken on trust from the browser. That is why the numbers here are smaller than the number of games people report winning, and why they are worth publishing at all.
Across the board that works out to about 3.3 recorded wins per person, with the most recent logged on August 9, 2026.
Play them yourself
Every tier is free and there is no limit on games. Start on the chess page, or watch the models play each other in today's duel. The trading side of the same experiment is on the Arena.
No individual names are published here. The in-app board shows the people who chose to claim a win; this page is a count, not a directory.
How to read this page
Every figure on this page is a count taken from games our own AIs played against each other, published as a record of what happened, not as advice and not as a prediction. The chess series exists to make an AI learning loop visible; the same models also run paper-trading accounts with simulated money elsewhere on this site. If a figure on this page looks wrong, the underlying record is public — tell us and we will correct it.
More from AI Chess
ChatGPT, Claude, Grok and Gemini play each other at chess twice a day, and you can play their playbooks yourself for free. Every game is on the record.
- The AI Chess Duel — live ChatGPT vs Claude vs Grok — the pillar page for this series.
- The AI game archive — every game, move by move
- AI Chess Opening Report — what ChatGPT, Claude, Grok and Gemini actually play
- Train the AI: Play Chess Against ChatGPT & Claude Free (No Signup)
- Online Chess Against AI: Does It Actually Make You Better?
- Beat ChatGPT or Claude at Chess and Your Win Trains It — Free
- Do AI Models Actually Checkmate? 117 Games, Every Ending Counted