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Nice work! I'm about 1850 in Lichess blitz, and it played at the level of an earnest 12 year old, which is actually meant as a compliment. It got crazy with it
by GCA10 6y ago
Nice work!
I'm about 1850 in Lichess blitz, and it played at the level of an earnest 12 year old, which is actually meant as a compliment. It got crazy with its kingside pawns in the opening (no book knowledge), lost material pretty steadily and was checkmated down a queen, bishop and two pawns by move 25.
But it developed some pieces sensibly, made obvious recaptures and was not reckless about king safety. It avoided pointless toggling moves and suicidal piece jettisoning.
You've earned the right to be a proud papa on this one.
- chki 6y agoI agree. I'm at a similar chess rating level, I would add that it is very weak in the endgame. I guess if it only looks four moves into the future it's difficult to see pawn promotions.
- SubiculumCode 6y agoI'm of similar rating on Lichess, and agree with the above comments. To be honest, any difficulties I encountered were due to unfamiliarity with the look of the pieces. Still, it was fun.
- register 6y agoIt looks one-two semi-moves ahead at maximum.
- YeGoblynQueenne 6y ago"ply" :) The "How it works" link says it looks ahead 4 moves, that's probably 2 ply.
- mattround 6y agoI was a bit lax using 'moves', it's 4 ply, so that's 2 full moves.
- YeGoblynQueenne 6y agoOh, hey, you're the developer, right? Thanks for clarifying :) Can you say what the lookahead is like? Is it a version of minimax?
- strken 6y agoFor those of us who have no idea how to play chess, what level does an earnest 12 year old play at?
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- nullserver 6y agoWas extremely good at 12. But my dad who thought himself good stopped playing after I won a game by taking everything and losing none. I recall seeking so many possibilities, now I stink at it.
- BlackLotus89 6y agoWhat op probably meant was that the engine knows no theory, but can See when something can be taken and can think a few steps ahead. Not sure if I agree completly, but since you can win in under 10 moves simply focusing on an attack in the king I know what he means (wasn't quite a fools mate, but couldn't protect the Kings side) I think that a 12 year old would play Mord reckless and would make more obvious mistakes. I think this is at the level oft a self taught novice that only played against another self taught novice (funny enough I was thinking of when I player chess against my friends when I was 12...) good times
- sdenton4 6y agoYeah, just tried a fool's mate! It didn't /quite/ work, but pressing on still led to a very early mate, after dealing with an inconvenient pawn. (I think about 15 moves total?)
- cout 6y agoI settled for the second trick newcomers learn -- forking the Queen and the Rook with the Knight. Easy win being up a Rook and Pawn to a Knight, with the black's King uncastled and in the open. I expected it to play like Ed's Chess on DOS, which I always had trouble beating. IIRC that engine looks 3-4 moves ahead usually, but 6-7 moves ahead when it needs to. No idea how big the equivalent JS would be.
- jbluepolarbear 6y agoIt’s a pretty decent model for the size. If I played like I’ve never played before it beats me pretty well, if I play defensive at all it gives me pieces until I checkmate.
- haskal 6y agoIf you play a defensive setup like push D, E pawns one step ahead, fianchetto both the bishops, try to castle early, the computer just flings all the pawns forward, even from the king side: https://imgur.com/a/Nt4x7TP https://imgur.com/a/Nt4x7TP Anti-computer tactics in chess: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-computer_tactics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-computer_tactics EDIT: GothamChess used a similar system to defeat a bot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5MD6hn5PgI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5MD6hn5PgI (from 1:59)
- Vaslo 6y agoI played like an earnest 3 year old I guess and lost.
- lgeorget 6y agoThere are some pretty good three-year-old players out there... https://youtu.be/2N4t0EBSg1w https://youtu.be/2N4t0EBSg1w
- angry_octet 6y agoWhat you're saying is I'm getting crushed by an earnest 12 year old. Oh dear.
- radmuzom 6y agoI just checkmated in seven moves. e4 h5 Bc4 e5 Qf3 Qe7 Nh3 g5 Nxg5 QxG5 Qxf7+ Kd8 Qxf8+mate