Chess Bots & Actual Rating
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Mar 15, 2026
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Because they are pre programmed to act a certain way, they are all Stockfish with built in errors and preferences . Most of us find we can beat bots way above our actual rating.
Writing code for a real 500 elo bot is going to be difficult, even Stockfish playing at 2 levels deep (2 ply) will NEVER blunder a piece.
I occasionally play against chess bots. I see they have fictious and rounded ratings. Why don't they have ratings fluctuate in line with their results as we do , I wonder.
Would make more fun to actually know what your are playing against.
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