Bots vs Humans

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chanelno5x

Bots have come a long way and I think the chess.com bots are quite fantastic, however, playing chess against living breathing opponents is far better.  Much thanks to the kind streamer and his followers for encouraging me to try "live" opponents online.

Not sure if this is common, but I thought my rating was somewhere between 1200 to 1400, because I beat a few 1200 bots and one 1600 bot.  Well, on this site, I am far below that rating range.

So, if looking at the bots as a "pool of players" is it just that humans on here are more challenging?  Thoughts on this subject welcome.  I'd love to hear your experience.-TIA ChanelNo5x

Alramech
chanelno5x wrote:

Bots have come a long way and I think the chess.com bots are quite fantastic, however, playing chess against living breathing opponents is far better.  Much thanks to the kind streamer and his followers for encouraging me to try "live" opponents online.

Not sure if this is common, but I thought my rating was somewhere between 1200 to 1400, because I beat a few 1200 bots and one 1600 bot.  Well, on this site, I am far below that rating range.

So, if looking at the bots as a "pool of players" is it just that humans on here are more challenging?  Thoughts on this subject welcome.  I'd love to hear your experience.-TIA ChanelNo5x

In short, the bots on the lower end of the spectrum (probably less than 1700 even) are very much overrated.  As one person put it, "It is hard to have a computer play badly but not too badly."

chanelno5x

@alramech Great quote!  That might be part of the reason the Celebrity bots and such seem to be rated too low in comparison to other bots.

stormiknights

Bots can't cheat, so they have that going for them.

CrestAnthurium96

It's a shame that they are already withdrawing several bots

chanelno5x
CrestAnthurium96 wrote:

It's a shame that they are already withdrawing several bots

Maybe they are replacing them?

chanelno5x
stormiknights wrote:

Bots can't cheat, so they have that going for them.

True.  That is definitely a virtue of bots.

GBTGBA

I’m very happy now I can play with my favorite bot Nelson offline ! 😀😀Thank you very much Chess.com 🤖Nelson plays like my hyperbullet opponents. 🤖

Azathot0

computers are so annoying, they always find instant mates, it's so unfair

binomine

I like trolling the low rated bots.

You can threaten to take their queen with a pawn and they won't even budge, but they won't hang a mate in one. Once a mate in one threat appears, it's like they're Bobby Fischer. 

Azathot0

yeah

SvenNANDO

how Live Chess?