Play the bots with a clock - possible?

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Avatar of Ishmai

I’m new to chess and started with puzzles and playing bots and was doing alright. I have begun playing 10 minute games against real people and am finding playing with the time constraints creates a wholly different game stress and leads to blunders I’d not have made against a bot.  I’m sure this is normal.  

Is there a way to play against the bots with a pseudo clock timer showing?  This would allow me to practice with the time constraints imposed by the clock and I believe this would help my game progress. I want the clock on both the bot and me. I realize the bot clock would be artificial but so are the “mistakes” made by the bot so AI could add a clock to the bots play to make it more realistically human.  Or maybe not…

Avatar of Martin_Stahl
Ishmai wrote:

I’m new to chess and started with puzzles and playing bots and was doing alright. I have begun playing 10 minute games against real people and am finding playing with the time constraints creates a wholly different game stress and leads to blunders I’d not have made against a bot. I’m sure this is normal.

Is there a way to play against the bots with a pseudo clock timer showing? This would allow me to practice with the time constraints imposed by the clock and I believe this would help my game progress. I want the clock on both the bot and me. I realize the bot clock would be artificial but so are the “mistakes” made by the bot so AI could add a clock to the bots play to make it more realistically human. Or maybe not…

Yes, under the Custom option you can add a time control, from a list of available ones. Though, I don't think the bots actually use much time.

Avatar of Ishmai

Perfect! I didn’t know those options were there. Thank You .

Avatar of onBoard64

Stahl: ”Though, I don't think the bots actually use much time.”

True, they don't. It’s like playing with time control against someone who isn’t using it; a wholly unrealistic experience.

For that reason, I some time ago suggested a reprogramming of the bots to allow for variation in spent time dependent on the type of moves (although, I guess that could be quite difficult to accomplish).

Avatar of kris081
On the Custom setting to play the bots, although you'd beat the bot and get 2 crowns instead of three i can't seem to find another way to play with a clock and still get 3, it should be there if you scroll to the bottom
Avatar of MariasWhiteKnight

Why would you ? With clock just use humans ?

Avatar of RainbowAstronaut

https://www.chess.com/blog/cjxchess17/how-to-beat-any-chess-com-bot-with-3-crowns

Avatar of JustAnotherGrandma

Same here, paralyzing fear playing rapid games, and tired of dailies. My work around is to set a 10 min. timer on my phone and just play the bot. They use up 0 time, so you know that all of the time eaten up is you.

Avatar of Artyom_Georgiev

where is the custom settings

Avatar of jotaro2009

Is it possible to play 90 mins + 30 secs against bots?

Avatar of ZekeMaverick
Yes because you play the ringmaster who’s rating is 2999
Avatar of The-Cream

Yes.

Avatar of EIiudKipchoge

no.

Avatar of bonga1807

Not sure about that.

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