Man V.S Machine (the differences in a human and engine/bot opponent)
PS. Pardon my not 100% fluent skills writing in english :)
Greetings from Finland!
I have been wondering about all these "artificial intelligence" Chess bots + the engines themselves and how they play differently compared to a human.
For excample: when i was 28 yrs. old i played against this guy who was around 40 and i lost five games in a row. Then i kind of learned to know his way of playing and i changed my tactics to extremely aggressive capturing every piece he offered and i won. After that i won 80% of the games i played against him.
Sure; people get better just by playing as long as the opponent is better or equal (i get lazy without a challenge).
Here is a fine excample:
I have played 8 games in total with 10 min or less time on the clock since
i started playing Chess 16 years ago.
I like to count as far as possible so i perfer 60 min. on the clock.
Today i decided to play V.S the maia-5 bot (9+0) Rapid.
I got the white pieces and (lucky me) the Bot choose to counter 1.e4 with ...d5
(B01 Scandinavian Defense) = a game i know well.
After i won - i requested CPU analysis which said 96% accuracy so i wonder:
Does the CPU give "pity points" when counting the percentages if there is
less time on the clock?
Ultimately i think that the Lichess Bots are fun to play against compared to the CPU on a certain difficulty level (the CPU picks the similiar moves on every opening) or if compared with the bots on other sites.
I have a handwritten list about all of the rated games i have played on this site and found out that the scale of different opening
variations i have played against the bots is huge.
* UPDATE(25.9.2024):
I was going through all the data this "Lichess"- program has been collecting from my past 58 games against the bots and i actually saw a predictable pattern of behaviour in my playing - so we need to take measures and i travelled back in time to the yrs. between 2008-2012 (when i used 50% of my spare time to memorize the Ensyclopedia Of Chess Openings etc.) and i played a classical (40+20) game against the "Boris-Trapsky"- bot using the A27 (Engl. Opening).
Just take a look at how the opening (almost artistically beautiful?) functions:
1.c4 e4 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.Nf3 Bc5 4.e3 d6 5.a3 Bb6 6.b4 Nf6 7.d4 0-0 8.c5!!
*PS: I'm not a computer scientist so the quality of these pictures is....what it is :)
              ...I must say that after playing 90% of my games against the CPU and bots (i only play f2f with people because lots of people cheat in the 60 min on the clock/correspondence games - or then i just am the worst online player on planet who's been playing and studying the Chess for 16 yrs. every single day and has lost to a human f2f last time in spring 2019) i love doing these puzzles as well. Sure i like to "sacrifice my mind" into a point of this lovely madness when counting and recounting my next move and sometimes just for killing time while doing these # with 2 moves etc. - kind of easy puzzles. I thought that it would be easy to "blunder it up" if not under true pressure, but no :) Somehow my mind has got hooked in these points i'm getting on my profile so if i would mess up an "easy" puzzle it really feels like twisting a dagger in my heart because it's hard to maintain certain level of accuracy while doing these puzzles. Which only grows my lust for the Chess (which only sounds absurd but if you think about it outside the box - it sounds reasonable). Yes ladies (and whatever creatures might be reading these texts) - you heard it right :) I have all the symptoms of "Pointamania." = If you have a low-motivated day; you can always find something to learn how to cope with :) |