Not wide out in the open on move 6, no. Usually it’s due to some combination of time pressure, playing while tired or blundering a fork/pin
Yeah, most “blunders” that an 1800 makes are too subtle for a 1000 to notice or exploit.
Wasn’t even wide out in the open either. Queen was on its back rank. AngryCat just got angry I guess.
EDIT: Thanks mosdef
You click on the share icon and select Animated GIF, that’s probably the coolest way to share the game. Here’s an example of one of my games:
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I hate the gifs lol. They move too fast and you can’t pause and rewind.
The bots ratings are all too high for their level of play but they also play very weirdly. Their mistakes are not human-like mistakes, they will play at a high level of positional understanding and then just fail to move a piece when it is attacked.
this is what a queen blunder looks like at the highest levels, usually it involves the queen getting trapped in the middle of the board in closed or semi-closed positions. and yes someone at a lower level would likely not even recognize that the queen could be trapped much less be able to execute it without letting the queen get away.
Agree with both of these. If you want to actually analyze a game, then you need something more interactive where you can click through and make alternative moves. If a game is that interesting I would make Lichess Study or equivalent that others can see and use.
The bots are definitely not as good as their ratings and I agree the mistakes are silly. Usually a bot error looks more like a “short circuit” than a slip up.
Yeah, definitely this. I fucking hate these things.
Time control is a major factor here too. Lots of blitz games between IMs involve handing a piece or a standard fork to win an exchange, when you run low on time anything can happen.
At lower levels people will make even basic mistakes in longer time controls. Here is my classical format game from this week, 90 minutes plus 30 seconds per move, and my opponent walks into a center pawn fork with 90 minutes on his clock .
Yeah, wish there was a way to adjust it a bit. I mean, I only want to know the first 7-8 moves of each color at most but I can’t edit it down or slow it up.
Yeah it feels to me that they have them play fairly decent but then have a RNG for blunders that triggers more frequently for lower Elo bots.
The GIFs can be slowed down if you pull them out to ezgif.com.
This is 25% default speed, you can make them faster or slower than this.
Still not great. I don’t want constant time for every move. No one does. Most moves we can blow through and others require staring at the board for minutes.
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The bots are all engines running in multi-PV mode with some algorithm for choosing between lines. Obviously the lower Elo bots are programmed to pick top lines less frequently but the bots are also given some personality. For example Nelson is programmed to pick queen moves and moves that attack stuff more frequently.
Yeah, so I think the best solution is an open Lichess study, you can even set them up so that other people can add annotations I think. Within the chess.com forums you could also embed a game such that people could click through like in a game review. But I think that for a generic forum that best you can do is post an imperfect GIF, or a link to the game, or a copy of the PGN.
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Ugh.
I am trying to learn chess but stalemate might make me quit. It’s the dumbest rule ever. How is it not the exact same thing as checkmate!
Dumbest rule ever.
Grrrrrrr. I’m On chess tilt.
Also how much cheating is happening at the noob level where I am on chess.com? Some of these people don’t seem like 300s!
I just think of it as arbitrary as all rules of games are. The effect is that it adds a little wrinkle. And even that is pretty rare. For the most part, the people sweating stalemate are people who aren’t that good. Once you get to a certain point, avoiding it is pretty trivial. However, I suppose every now and then a stalemate consideration may come into a GM level game. But when that happens, it’s definitely cool.
One of my most memorable games growing up was a stalemate. I was playing the highest rated kid in our high school. He was up a piece. So I pretended that I was just on tilt and just punting pieces in lieu of resigning. He kind of stopped paying attention and boom: stalemate. We weren’t playing in a tournament or anything. If it was, he probably would have been more careful.
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stalemate is different than checkmate because your king is not in check
nobody is cheating at 300s, if they were they wouldnt be 300s