Frontier AI has broken the open CTF format

Re:Frontier AI has broken the open CTF format by virtualritz on Saturday May 16, 2026 @04:56AM (#48158295)

Chess and Go are not dead just because Ai got better than humans at these games.

What am I missing here?

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Re:Frontier AI has broken the open CTF format by jofzar on Saturday May 16, 2026 @05:18AM (#48158426)

These have very strong anti cheats and in person is very stringent on no electronics.

Its not really a good comparison

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Re:Frontier AI has broken the open CTF format by hnlmorg on Saturday May 16, 2026 @04:59AM (#48158322)

You aren’t allowed to use tools to play competitive Chess / Go but that are required for solving CTF.

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Re:Frontier AI has broken the open CTF format by lugu on Saturday May 16, 2026 @06:28AM (#48158830)

Read the article.

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Re:Frontier AI has broken the open CTF format by virtualritz on Saturday May 16, 2026 @07:34AM (#48159234)

I read the article. Their chess section makes no sense as in "why this wouldn't work for CTF".

But I don't know enough that's why I asked.

I imagine one could do CTF in public, machines you work on vetted/prepared to some spec, yada yada.

If chess and Go can do it why can't CTF?

That was my question when I wrote "what am I missing here".

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Re:Frontier AI has broken the open CTF format by artninja1988 on Saturday May 16, 2026 @06:53AM (#48158978)

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

"Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that"."

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Re:Frontier AI has broken the open CTF format by aymenfurter on Saturday May 16, 2026 @11:21AM (#48160992)

Chess banned engines from competition. CTFs can't really do that because you need internet access and tooling to play.

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