Breaking News: The Zombie Apocalypse Is Here!
Chess.com normally creates seasonal bots here for a limited time, and with many people blogging about it, I decided to join in. The zombie bots are found in the Play > Computer and it's found at the top of the bot list. I find these fun to play since they probably not going to come back for a long time or possibly, never! In this blog, I will introduce the bots and play two games against each, one game of each colour. Will I prevail? Or will I become a zombie? Hope you enjoy!
*sources are from chess.com
The Bots
Zombanny:
Rating: 400
Quick Summary: "Zombie Danny has distant, vague memories of being a famous international master and commentator. Can you survive a game with him now that he’s undead?"
Zotez:
Rating: 800
Quick Summary: "Alexandra Zotez is one of the most popular zombie chess streamers in the world! Be careful, many people have lost their brainz to a Zotez Gambit!"
Zombiano:
Rating: 1000
Quick Summary: "Zombie Fabiano Caruana still remembers starting 7-0 at the 2014 Sinquefield Cup. But now, all he wants are your brains! How long can you resist Zombiano?"
Zombiachtchi:
Rating: 1400
Quick Summary: "Nepomniachtchi was the last world championship challenger before the zombie outbreak. Beware the Zombiachtchi!"
Zombaru:
Rating: 1800
Quick Summary: "Are you a 5head? That only makes your brain look bigger and juicier for zombie Hikaru. Can you survive Zombaru’s fierce attack?"
The Games
Zombanny:
These two games are me against Zombanny and, they were way worse than I thought they would go.
Post-Game Thoughts: "At least it's above 85 percent accuracy, okay?"
Post-Game Thoughts: "Why do I suck at chess?"
Zotez:
After not having a good start against Zombanny, I tried to redeem myself here. Zotez is based off of Alexandra Botez, which is great! I know that the zombie version of her would give up their queen still, right?
Post-Game Thoughts: "Good enough. Let's move on."
Post-Game Thoughts: "..."
Zombiano:
Zombiano being 1000 is making me think that this actually might go better than my games against Zotez. We'll see about that.
Post-Game Thoughts: "Okay then."
Post-Game Thoughts: "This is Guess the Elo worthy."
Zombiachtchi:
This might not go well...
Post-Game Thoughts: "I let it go."
Post-Game Thoughts: "This was fun."
*I played Zombiachtchi as black first
Zombaru:
Okay, I know I'm dropping both of these games FOR SURE. Since people love others lose badly, I'll show you these games.
Post-Game Thoughts: "*sighs* There's always next time...if there is one."
Post-Game Thoughts: "There's my first sweep of the series."
At the end, I ended up with 7/10, average accuracy of 79.88%, and made it out alive. I don't know if this really seems it took a lot of time to do this but hopefully it did. Hope you enjoyed this blog post, and have you played the bots yet? If not, check them out here. They should be at the top of the bots page.
I'lll end it here. Hope you have a good one,
-Ryan 
