Chess Bot Ratings vs. Reality?

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Der_Hochmeister

How accurate are the ratings for the chess bots? Specifically, if a bot says 1200 rating, about how close in actuality is it to 1200?

I'm asking because I can consistently beat 1300 bots but I estimate my rating to be ~1100-1200

Thanks for any help!

llama47

Bot ratings are higher than what you can expect from playing humans. In terms of playing strength, a 1200 bot is actually a few 100 points lower. There's no exact conversion.

binomine
Hank_Rearden7 wrote:

How accurate are the ratings for the chess bots?

Bots don't play like humans.  It is really hard to compare them directly.

A human blunders because they don't consider every move. They hang pieces, they don't guard backwards pawn, they miss important moves. 

Bots blunder by choosing poor moves. Typical bot play is, inhumane move, inhuman move, inhumane blunder, inhumane move, inhuman blunder, etc.  So, they have a tell on when they are blundering, which makes them easier than humans once you start catching on. 

llama47
Rodrigo_Luz wrote:
Bots are calibrated to be constant at a given rating.

There's no calibration, but of course they are constant.

More to the point though, the bots on chess.com are overrated by a few hundred points.

JustinDYLegend

I hate bots they dont get trap :<

 

brianchesscake

you have to understand that chess engines these days are naturally super strong so, to bring them down to under 2000 rated, the engines have to "dumbed down" and this process makes them forced to make blunders and miss sometimes obvious moves to resemble a human player at that level. However, this also makes bots easier to manipulate because if you can figure out what mistakes they keep making, you can get them into positions where they will be making the same patterns of mistakes and exploit that weakness.

thegreatblendermaster
I’m 900 in rapid, and I consistently beat any bot under 1500 including the engine. Today I went for the “advanced” engine bot (1600) and I drew the first game but I won the next two… this makes no sense because I am 900 rapid and 730 blitz. They have to be extremely overrated. I don’t think it has to do with time either because usually I play bots if I am multitasking so I don’t even put much attention when playing them and usually finish the game within 10min. Like I beat Nelson consistently ever since I broke 800…
NXChen

even the easiest bot can avoid 4 move checkmate

19mason3

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Alchessblitz

a : Reality, the strength of a bot and the strength of a human are not comparable because bot and human don't have the same abilities.

b : The same ratings but it is bullet rating.

c : Being able to win a game with a bot once doesn't mean much to me, it's in the long term that it becomes more significant.