Do chess engines play with style?

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Vibhansh_Alok
SophiaSemenova wrote:
To explore this question, here I post the first among ten games between two chess engines supposed to play in two distinct styles, striving to emulate two great past masters with diametrically opposite play philosophy. See for yourself whether you could see what chess engine emulates whom. It is pertinent to mention that there is approximately 200 elo difference between the two engines.

Here's the game

I've heard about some chess positions which engines just can't understand...probably in recent blogs. Mostly draw looking...pawn chain blocked position.

KeSetoKaiba

chess engines typically do not have a "style." They just calculate to the best of their ability and if a "lower difficulty" engine, then it calculates to the best of its ability and then occasionally plays non-best moves (lower difficulty engine plays worse moves more frequently). 

However, chess.com "personality bots" are programmed to have certain 'personalities' and play 'styles.' 

The max difficulty engines "understand" a ton, but still a few positions it evaluates incorrectly until you "show it" the correct idea or until its depth catches up. You can google "horizon effect" or check out some chess positions computers can't currently evaluate correctly. 

KeSetoKaiba

Here is a well known chess puzzle engines do not understand. Stockfish can't "solve" how to win with White, but objectively, White has a winning motif.

 

V3RD1CT

They play stupid trash chess at depth 30 any questions?