Are Chess.com Bots really as strong as what they are rated?

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GenocidalPawn

Was wondering because I just beat wally-bot(1800) when my 10 min rapid rating is only 1490. I've played around 5 or 6 games against this bot recently and lost every other time so I was pretty surprised. Also, I can beat the Isabel-bot(1600) about 40-45% of the time. I'll include the game between me and Wally, to me it seems more like the bot played bad as opposed to me playing better than normal but I did take more time to think than I would in a 10 min game.

Khnemu_Nehep

Obviously not.

GenocidalPawn

Just trying to grasp the purpose of why their ratings would be inflated. How does it help Chess.com to inflate their ratings?

Alexeivich94
GenocidalPawn wrote:

Just trying to grasp the purpose of why their ratings would be inflated. How does it help Chess.com to inflate their ratings?

Well it's pretty damn hard to program them to be exactly of comparable strength than a certain elo bracket.

xtreme2020
Computers just play really weird moves, so it’s hard to give them an accurate rating
xtreme2020
I guess because in general they’re overrated, chess.com could change them, but everyone knows by now and it makes the beginners who don’t know feel good about themselves
GenocidalPawn

It would be cool if they could let the bots have a calculated rating like a normal human does, but then it would be skewed by low rated players cheating against it. Oh well I guess, its not like other sites don't have better bots anyways.