Totally not related but how do you get to play endgames against the computer? Did you just start a new game and moved the pieces so to arrange the board in that setting? Or is there a program where you add the pieces conveniently and just start playing? If it's the latter then which program is it? And also is it free or paid?
1000 beating a 2600 computer in a drawn position?
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Karlabos wrote:
Totally not related but how do you get to play endgames against the computer? Did you just start a new game and moved the pieces so to arrange the board in that setting? Or is there a program where you add the pieces conveniently and just start playing? If it's the latter then which program is it? And also is it free or paid?
The chess.com app allows you to set up your own custom positions. Even positions with No kings, pawns on the 1st rank (but not the 8th) and more than 16 pieces.
Feb 22, 2017
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Try playing the computer on an actual computer - the engine's power depends mainly on where you are playing - if you're playing on a phone, the computer will be much weaker than if you were playing on a supercomputer.
On level 10 on my computer, the engine is as strong as Stockfish, and can routinely beat Rybka.
That's because you're playing on a phone. My phone's Level 5 AI acts like a slightly weaker version of me.
Feb 23, 2017
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Congrats for win,u demonstered that human can beat supercomputers.
Smoggyabbainopadano wrote:
Congrats for win,u demonstered that human can beat supercomputers.
The computer was mobile at the time. It was simultaneously handling the paperwork for a traffic accident it caused. Explains why it went in overload!
Cherub_Enjel wrote:
Try playing the computer on an actual computer - the engine's power depends mainly on where you are playing - if you're playing on a phone, the computer will be much weaker than if you were playing on a supercomputer.
On level 10 on my computer, the engine is as strong as Stockfish, and can routinely beat Rybka.
The chess.com engine is stockfish, at least on the analysis board.
Feb 23, 2017
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Stockfish is not intended to run on a phone.
If I ran it on my broken 10 year old computer I had since I was a little kid, it would probably lag at around 9 plies or something.
The OP played against an extremely weak computer on the phone, and that's all there is to it.
Feb 23, 2017
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Enderman1323 wrote:
I was playing against the level 10 computer on mobile
The one with a rating of 2600.
So don't worship the chess engine, as it sometimes gets things wrong.
The last few times my opponent showed me some analysis of an endgame on their phone (after our tournament game), I said yeah, but that's an engine on a phone in an endgame, it probably doesn't know what it's doing, I think my moves were better. 
Cherub_Enjel wrote:
Try playing the computer on an actual computer - the engine's power depends mainly on where you are playing - if you're playing on a phone, the computer will be much weaker than if you were playing on a supercomputer.
On level 10 on my computer, the engine is as strong as Stockfish, and can routinely beat Rybka.
I pitted the engine I used on my phone against my computer several months ago (out of curiosity) and after sixty-something moves, the computer had an advantage of 0.93
Apr 12, 2017
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^Yep, I believe that's a lie.
The bottom line is, it means nothing to beat up an engine on a mobile device that's so weak it would lose the position above. You should be prouder beating a 1400 in blitz, if you ever have/do.
Apr 26, 2017
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benonidoni wrote:
Maybe because that board position is not possible
Wanna bet?
I was playing against the level 10 computer on mobile
The one with a rating of 2600.
So don't worship the chess engine, as it sometimes gets things wrong. It's incredible computing power was no match for my intuition. I played this game twice, and it did the exact same thing twice in a row. In case you're wondering, the losing move here is 10. h4... What should have been played instead is 10. hxg4, leading to a drawn position.