Bot Strength Increase
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Magnanimous-Carlsen
Dec 10, 2025
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#1
I’m fairly certain that the bots all got a boost in strength recently. All the bots I used to speedrun through for warm-up are now giving me a hard time. Also, the Game Review rating is telling me I’m playing at 2300 vs Martin which is different than it used to be. I used to get >90% accuracy and a 1300 rating and now it’s 85% and 2300. I know there’s not a lot that goes into the single game rating but it’s weird that the bots are harder and the single game rating is also higher despite lower accuracy against the easy bots. Not sure if anyone else noticed oddities like that. Just wanted to share and see if anyone else had thoughts.
Dec 10, 2025
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#2
Yeah I noticed I am getting 2400 as a rating after games. I haven’t even been close to that number before. I’m a bit disappointed. I’m no 2400 player. I liked it better when the number was in concert with chess ratings overall.
Yes, they definitely all got a boost. I’m finding it much harder to beat bots that I easily could blitz through before, now all of a sudden bites three and 400 points lower than my ELO are beating me. And yet their EL0 strength is listed as the same as before. What’s going on?
Feb 3, 2026
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#5
I think that the bots consistently playing a higher rating than listed is unfair, but if chess dot kahm changed the listed ratings, everybody would be mad the ratings switched, edn though we were told.
Feb 3, 2026
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#6
If you're seeing that on the iOS app, the bots had previously not been playing to their configured strength. They were playing weaker than their listed rating.