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Please introduce a selector for the level of stockfish on the 'practice with computer' button.
Its level is so low that this 'practice' is useless.
thanks!

Please introduce a selector for the level of stockfish on the 'practice with computer' button. Its level is so low that this 'practice' is useless. thanks!

BorisOspasky

#2

Can’t you choose the level that the computer plays at? Level 1 I can beat it, level 8... no chance in a million years.

EmaciatedSpaniard

#3

If you know how to do that i'd be very grateful if you could describe it.

When I click on analysis board (microscope symbol above agame's move table) and then click on 'practice with computer' (bulleye symbol) below the games move table, the computer starts making moves. I don't know where to adjust the level of the computer.

also when I check puzzles i solved and want to play it out afterwards i click on the 'practice with computer' symbol. However esp. with endgames I've noticed its a very low level and so I don't really learn anything from this feature.

If you know how to do that i'd be very grateful if you could describe it. When I click on analysis board (microscope symbol above agame's move table) and then click on 'practice with computer' (bulleye symbol) below the games move table, the computer starts making moves. I don't know where to adjust the level of the computer. also when I check puzzles i solved and want to play it out afterwards i click on the 'practice with computer' symbol. However esp. with endgames I've noticed its a very low level and so I don't really learn anything from this feature.

Sybotes

#4

I experienced that, too. But it is only when the game is decided already. When in a middlegame position I usually lose against "practise" mode even if the evaluation is +3 for me or something like that. But in the end that engine makes quite nonsense moves like not recapturing the rook in a trade or something like that - but only if it is impossible not to win anymore.

My guess is: when you are in the tablebase stadium (7 pieces left or less) it just picks the first move in the list of possible moves without any further calculation. So you can't practise to win a position with, say, one pawn against nothing, because the engine just runs away with the kong rather than at least forcing you to make the correct opposition keeping moves with the king ...

I experienced that, too. But it is only when the game is decided already. When in a middlegame position I usually lose against "practise" mode even if the evaluation is +3 for me or something like that. But in the end that engine makes quite nonsense moves like not recapturing the rook in a trade or something like that - but only if it is impossible not to win anymore. My guess is: when you are in the tablebase stadium (7 pieces left or less) it just picks the first move in the list of possible moves without any further calculation. So you can't practise to win a position with, say, one pawn against nothing, because the engine just runs away with the kong rather than at least forcing you to make the correct opposition keeping moves with the king ...