Yeah, I figured that it would never play like a real GM, since it's a computer and it likes to play strange move. Still love the game.
Still, the Grandmaster computer on Chess Ultra actually played opening moves when I tried out Opening Explorer on the chess.com app, and I think the computer would stop automatically playing opening moves after like 17 moves.
Goes to show how this AI was grandmaster-approved.
The AI is very nice and outplays me quite handily at difficulties of 4 and up. I think you are a much stronger player than I am if you can beat it at GM difficulty. I play at a lower level of skill so my opinion is subjective -- but the chess ultra AI seems to value undermining your pawn structure and king safety even more than stockfish does. At lower difficulties, it seems to be willing to make huge material sacrifices to undermine your king's safety so if you can take advantage of that, it's easy to beat. Even at lower difficulties, it sees forks, pins, skewers and combos leading into forks and pins quite consistently. It's difficult to fool, but then it just tosses you a free piece every now and then. I don't think it gives away the free pieces so readily on higher difficulties. Of course even on the GM difficulty it loses consistently to Stockfish 12 NNUE. Everything loses to stockfish 12 NNUE.
Hi chess lovers! I've been playing Chess Ultra on the PS4 for like a year and a half, and I've noticed that the AI has been really good and suitable for a chess player like me. The grandmaster difficulty was the hardest for me to beat, though it is a computer, so it was bound to make strange and even blunder moves some times.
And it will probably never be the same as the real life grandmaster. But what do you guys think of the AI?