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OpenAI’s o3 Dominates Kaggle AI Chess Tournament

OpenAI's o3 model won the Kaggle AI chess exhibition tournament, an event where leading LLMs showcased their strategic reasoning. In the finals, o3 decisively defeated xAI's Grok 4 with a perfect 4-0 score, while Google's Gemini 2.5 Pro took third place.

o3 never lost in the tournament, highlighting their s…