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What computer programs do people use to cheat? I do not play chess with other people, but I do play against the computer. I've thought of writing a program to m
by _wldu 6y ago
What computer programs do people use to cheat? I do not play chess with other people, but I do play against the computer. I've thought of writing a program to make moves for me to see how it would fair against the computer. I'm interested in how the program interacts with the board? Does it take screenshots? Does it interact via an API?
- sslnx 6y agoStockfish is free and open source. https://stockfishchess.org/ https://stockfishchess.org/
- pacbard 6y agoMost chess sites provide a "firehose" for current games. It should be pretty easy to pipe a game's pgn file to stockfish. Also, sites also have a "viewer" page for most games where they add a chess engine evaluation of the current position. All you really need to do to cheat is to open your game under another account and you can just copy over the move in the top line. If you are interested in super computer evaluation of chess games, [sesse](https://analysis.sesse.net https://analysis.sesse.net) usually has the analysis of the "game of the day". It's run by people at chess24, so they usually analyze Magnus' games.
- Domenic_S 6y agoIf you want to just goof around, use any chess program (such as OSX's built-in Chess.app) set at the hardest difficulty, and play the opposite color from your real game. Then copy your opponent's moves to Chess.app, and make the computer's moves in the real game.