AI Chess games testing

I’ll be playing retro AI chess games on emulators vs chess.com AI and posting the results/moves here.
I copy the moves from one game to the other to pit the AI’s against eachother.

First off is an Atari 2600 emulator playing Video Chess at diffficulty 1 against Chess.com level 1
Here is the move list. Atari 2600 is Black, Chess.com is White
1.
Nf3

d5
2.
h3

Nc6
3.
b3

e5
4.
Ba3

Nf6
5.
d3

Bf5
6.
Nh4

Nd4
7.
g4

Bxa3
8.
Qd2

Bb2
9.
Rg1

Bxa1
10.
gxf5

O-O
11.
Nf3

Nxf5
12.
c3

Nd7
13.
Na3

Nd6
14.
Bg2

c5
15.
Kf1

e4
16.
e3

exf3
17.
Nc2

fxg2+
18.
Kxg2

Bb2
19.
a4

Re8
20.
Nb4

Qg5+
21.
Kh2

Qe5+
22.
Kg2

Bxc3
23.
f4

Qf6
24.
Qc2

Bxb4
25.
Qd1

Rxe3
26.
Qa1

Qxa1
27.
Rxa1

Rxd3
28.
h4

Rxb3
29.
Kh1

Rh3+
30.
Kg1

Rxh4
31.
a5

Rxf4
32.
Ra4

d4
33.
a6

b5
34.
Kh2

bxa4
35.
Kg1

Nb8
36.
Kh2

Nxa6
37.
Kg1

g5
38.
Kh2

I didn’t finish this game because Atari had 12 pieces left on the board and Chess.com only had the king left.
I read it was thought impossible to make Chess for the Atari 2600 because the Atari cpu/ram is so weak.
The game was only made because someone threatened to sue Atari because they didn’t have a chess game available and there was a pic of a chess piece on the machines boxes cover which was a form of advertising to show Chess can be played on the Atari 2600.

Atari 2600 video chess AI (difficulty 1) beat the level 1 AI of Chess.com
http://www.free80sarcade.com/2600_Video_Chess.php
@Ready @Dravin

I won’t post the moves of future games. I’ll only post the results of which AI won/lost

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Atari 2600 video chess skill 1 vs Chess.com skill 5
Chess.com won in 34 moves
Atari had king.queen,knight and 4 pawns left
Chess.com had king,queen,castle, and 4 pawns left.

Atari 2600 video chess skill 2 vs Chess.com skill 5
Atari won in 45 moves
Atari had king,queen,castle,bishop and 2 pawns left
Chess.com had king left

Atari 2600 video chess skill 2 vs Chess.com skill 6
Chess.com won in 53 moves
Atari had king, and 5 pawns left
Chess.com had king, 2 castles and 2 pawns left.
(This game was weird to watch. The first half of the game looked like bots playing and not humans.)

Atari 2600 video chess skill 3 vs Chess.com skill 6
Chess.com won in 28 moves
Atari had king,queen, 2 castles and 6 pawns left
Chess.com had king.queen.bishop,knight,castle and 6 pawns left.

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