A question about chess bots

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Connecting123

Given that it is impossible for a human to beat Stockfish, what are the dynamics for all of the different chess bots that are out there?

Ex. Is Martin his own, separate, incredibly weak engine, or is he a version of stockfish that is programmed to play moves that are very far from the top engine line?

And another question: given how the regular bots work, how the adaptive bots work as well?

Martin_Stahl
Connecting123 wrote:

Given that it is impossible for a human to beat Stockfish, what are the dynamics for all of the different chess bots that are out there?

Ex. Is Martin his own, separate, incredibly weak engine, or is he a version of stockfish that is programmed to play moves that are very far from the top engine line?

And another question: given how the regular bots work, how the adaptive bots work as well?

 

All the site bots are versions of Komodo with various settings and opening books to make them play differently. The Adaptive bots are using a Komodo setting to change the bots strength based on the opponent's play.

TourDeChess7
Martin_Stahl wrote:

"All the site bots are versions of Komodo with various setting and opening books to make play differently. The Adaptive bots are using a Komodo setting to change the bots strength based on the opponent's play."

Hi Martin, I think you are one of the site moderators. I looked up Komodo and see that it is the name of a chess engine. Is there an explanatory link on chess.com to explain a strategy of how to most effectively play the different chess bots for training?

Would beginner bots be too easy for an intermediate player, or should I play all of them as they cover different openings at each level? You wrote in your answer above, that the adaptive bots change based on your play, are they in effect judging your rating level on the fly as you play or are they adjusting based on how well you know a particular opening line the bot is teaching/playing?

It's completely confusing to me which ones I should pick to play against, in what order, to make the best use of my time. I don't see any names on the links just cartoon faces in these generalized category groupings: A.I., Coach, Adaptive, Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced, Master, Streamers (what does that even mean in terms of a bot, are they interactive lessons?), Top Players, Personalities, Engine (1). How are adaptive bots different from AI bots? I'm hoping there's an explanatory chess.com link with training recommendations. I'm willing to do my own research to answer my questions if a link is available. Any help would be appreciated, thanks.

Martin_Stahl

There's really no guide. Just try some out and see how they play. The Coach bots give some hints when playing. As to the adaptive ones, I believe it's just scaling the rating based on how well/bad you're playing.

Alchessblitz

All the site bots are versions of Komodo 

If it is the same as Komodo 13 on pc which I am doing "the evalutation course" with Chessmaster playing 10m [with "a hyper mini repertoire"] against opponents controlled by Komodo (macking adaptive strenght) with 15m+10s per move and its repertoire in " the serious game mode ".  

(I specify that after 1) d4 d5 2) c4 Chessmaster has no more opening knowledge and that the levels of Komodo go from 1077 to 2477 and that Chessmaster played as first opponent a level 1603 (14 wins and 1 lose for the moment).  Against the opponent level 1885 was a victory that seemed to me difficult. And Komodo plays quite fast in general here at the end of the game it seems to me that he had 14 or 13 minutes left

I don't really recognize it even though it's a new program for me and I haven't "figured out its algorithm yet". 

chess.com bots are overrated and make mistakes that seem abnormal to me so that we can beat chess.com bots 2200 while it is a level (in probably almost all chess programs) too strong for us.