Why did Fritz do this?
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Fritz 16. Was playing a Friend mode game against Fritz earlier (playing strength approx 1000 elo) and he moved his king out from behind the safety of the castle and towards the centre of the board! I know its only meant to mimic a 1000-elo-player but I think its reasonable to claim that no 1000-elo human player would consider such a move. Unfortunately I didn't record the game. Fritz is meant to play a reasonably human-like game insofar as an engine can do this. So how can his behaviour here be justified? I do feel a bit let down. He went on to win the game despite this behaviour. I assume if I he was mimicking a higher elo he would not play such a move?
It just seemed irrational to me and I thought computers were only capable of logic...
Nov 17, 2018
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Was the game going into the endgame with most of the heavy pieces off the board? If so, maybe it wasn't such an illogical move. If not, then you're probably right. Although I'm not a programmer, I'm convinced that it's very difficult to make an engine replicate a novice player in a natural way. Most engines don't quite get it right. The engines that do get it mostly right can be counted on one hand with a couple of fingers left over. 
Is it that hard to program an engine to not move its king towards the centre of the board during the early middlegame? Just wondering...Like the human player, the engine should count king safety as the #1 priority.
