the knight bot is bullshit

Seriously 94% accuracy and 1700+ play in mid and end game for an 850 ranked bot.. wtf is this? Chess.com trolling

When you play HORRIBLE moves you lose.

Please follow the community guidelines. Do not swear.

#3 where did he swear. Just get over it. I know you’re 12 but it literally isn’t used in a harmful or attacking way. He’s actually not even swearing technically. lol

Twice.

It's weird of you to miss both.

#5 oh I didn’t elaborate my bad. Where did he swear in a tone that would offend anyone.

And dont say #3 he’s just playing pretend moderator.

Swearing in public forums isn't a good thing in general, no matter whether it offends anyone or not

@1AncientConcavenator I think if the forum title contains a swear word, it may or may not be adjusted by mods. However, the URL of the forum stays the same. I know that from another forum. By the way, #SilksongHype

Coming soon:

"The knight bot is [removed]"

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RIP Knight Bot

2025-2025

#6, silksong! Sorry, off topic. #1, you want help? You can always ask.

#8, it will be adjusted if I’m not mistaken

Just play with concentration and take advantage when the bot starts making mistakes, that's how you win

#13, if the bot plays like that then why does the bot play like this?

[Event "?"]
[Site "Chess.com iPhone"]
[Date "????.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "?"]
[Black "?"]
[Result "*"]
[FEN "rnbqkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNBQKBNR w KQkq - 0 1"]

1. d4 d5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. e3 h6 4. Bd3 Bd7 5. b3 Qc8 6. Bb2 a6 7. a3 e6 8. Nbd2 Kd8 9. O-O Be8 10. Ne5 Nxd4 11. exd4 Bd7 12. Nxf7+ Ke7 13. Nxh8 Qe8 14. Ng6+ Kd8 15. Nxf8 Qxf8 16. Nf3 Qf7 17. Ne5 Qe7 18. Nxd7 Kxd7 19. Re1 a5 20. Qe2 Nf6 21. Bf5 Re8 22. Bh3 Kc8 23. Bxe6+ Kd8 24. f4 g6 25. Bg4 Qxe2 26. Rxe2 Rxe2 27. Bxe2 Ne4 28. Bd3 Kd7 29. Re1 g5 30. Bxe4 dxe4 31. Rxe4 b5 32. Kf2 c6 33. fxg5 hxg5 34. Kf3 c5 35. dxc5 Kc6 36. Rg4 Kxc5 37. Rxg5+ Kc6 38. h4 Kc7 39. h5 a4 40. b4 Kd6 41. h6 Kc6 42. h7 Kd7 43. h8=Q Ke6 44. Qh6+ Kd7 45. Rg7+ Kd8 46. Qh8# {*}

I’m on app so I can’t make an analysis board

Here's your game Josh11live (I see you're white in this game). And yes, that's far more typical of bot play for the rating they list it as, it just starts giving up pieces for no reason (the knight on move 10, for example) and then proceeds to get trashed, falling for forks and so forth.
I don't know how they set the bots up, but it may be that lower rated bots only know a couple openings, and perhaps this one is programmed to "know" the French (maybe even only the Advance variation), which I played. As a result, in my game maybe I played into the bot's prep, while you played a d4 game and perhaps the bot is given less opening knowledge for those (i.e. it's a bot simulating someone who only knows 1. e4 ... games for both sides)? 
Regardless of my speculations, in the game I played, once beyond the opening, the bot started giving away pieces, losing its Bishop to a simple tactic, and later giving up pieces for pawns (the sort of thing I associate with <1000 bot play). But if the bot "knows" the opening, then it will score high for that portion of the game, resulting in a higher rating in the game review (I presume).
Also, depending upon how they hobble bots to bring their play down to the targeted Elo, it may be that the positions I had didn't play into the bot's algorithmic weaknesses, so it looked stronger in this game than it normally would?
I just remember during this game thinking it was playing better than I expected and that it seemed to take quite a bit longer than I expected for it to fall over. I've only played it the one time, so perhaps it was an anomaly and at the points where it has options to choose various moves it just got lucky in that the algorithm randomly picked the better moves a bit more often than expected early in the game?
Anyway, nice game Josh11live, you crushed it from the start and never looked back. Well done.

I think this is a "you" problem, OP. This bot is very easy.

Update: I've found that sometimes it can play decently (embarrassingly, it took me two tries to beat it as Black because I played too fast and blundered badly on my first attempt), but for the most part it's rated appropriately. Just like almost every bot, if you just play normally, don't hang anything and wait for the inevitable blunder, you'll be fine.

Hi Fr3nchToastCrunch,

Yah, that looks more like what I expected, but interesting that you found its strength to be variable with sometimes producing decent play. Perhaps that's part of this bot's "personality"? It's "streaky"? Regardless, your advice to play normally and solid (i.e. blunder check and look for opportunities) is spot on.

At least this thread is from 2025

Even sounds unnaturally

I agree.