Raspberry Pi Pico Chess Robot Cheats and Insults Players via ChatGPT

Have you ever wanted to play chess but didn’t have anyone to play with? Now you can play against a virtual opponent using a real chess board thanks to this Raspberry Pi project put together by maker and developer Noah Davis. Not only does this Pico-powered chess-playing robot simulate having a real opponent, it brings your challenger to life by adding ChatGPT to throw insults at you while you play and uses Stockfish to cheat by optimizing its moves against you.

The project mainly uses ChatGPT to add dialogue using text-to-speech functionality. After all, who wants to play against a…