How to beat Sven!

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Hi! My name is Lauren Goodkind and I'm a chess coach and chess book author based in California: www.ChessByLauren.com 

 If you are having trouble beating chess.com's Sven bot, here's a video that you might find helpful!  The video just came out today.  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2g9wtnSYC8

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Sven bot is only defensive, not an attacking bot. So, its easy to defeat him by strong attacks and tactics.

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awesome!

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Sven tends to give up pieces for no reason, don’t blunder and wait for him to drop all of his material.
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I beat him, he blundered a rook and I traded most of my pieces away to press the advantage

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Wow, interesting
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Yay!

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my name's ali and i from indonesia

Avatar of EllieNZchess

I just beated sven. Don’t try fried lever on him though. 

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He's easy, I can beat him on a bad day with blunders.

Avatar of FruityGamer

Yes. I recently beat him and I noticed he gives up some pieces. ended up mating him with 2 missed wins and 15 blunders lol

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After having beat each of the preceding bots first try, albeit with 2 move takebacks along the way, Sven beat me twice in a row.  Now I’m playing him and I went from up a pawn to -1 point, with challenging pawn structure.  I guess he’s tuned to my weakness which is missing attacks.

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Sven, easily the worst of the bots I've played yet (and I've played the Nelson-bot). Don't think anyone would need a complete anti-sven repertoire or anything to beat him in under 30 moves lol. 

https://www.chess.com/game/computer/7556799

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chess.com members are all at different levels.  While Sven might be easy for some, he could be difficult for others.

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I agree with this statement!  

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How do you play Sven with the clock?

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about mid-game, he tends to blunder his queen, when he can move it out of danger

that blunder of his usually results in a loss for him

but otherwise he's still pretty strong of a bot and can checkmate when your off-guard from my experiences.

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I CHECKMATED SVEN IN 5 MOVES!!! ONLY 5 XDDDDDDDD

REVENGE IS TAKEN!!!

Look at it here. https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/computer/25758969?tab=analysis

 

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Donnsteinz wrote:

Sven, easily the worst of the bots I've played yet (and I've played the Nelson-bot). Don't think anyone would need a complete anti-sven repertoire or anything to beat him in under 30 moves lol. 

https://www.chess.com/game/computer/7556799

You can actually mate him in 5 moves, rather than 25. Look at the 5 move checkmate and bully Sven here https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/computer/25758969?tab=analysis