Bots are insane
a chess program from 1983 may even be 1800 strength 
I cannot beat a chess program from 1983
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Mar 31, 2021
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This one was rated less than 1500 on that setting. But still it was high above my abilities.
Apr 1, 2021
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Rodrigo_Luz wrote:
It is worth remember that ELO 1500 from the ‘80 it not the same thing as nowadays. ELO is relative and then there is some “inflation” to be considered. Besides, old programs can indeed give you a hard time, even with a very slow and very limited hardware.
Thank you and others 
The program was indeed developed by a genius. Here is a description how it works:
https://www.chessprogramming.org/SuperChess
Apr 2, 2021
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xlastovi wrote:
Rodrigo_Luz wrote:
It is worth remember that ELO 1500 from the ‘80 it not the same thing as nowadays. ELO is relative and then there is some “inflation” to be considered. Besides, old programs can indeed give you a hard time, even with a very slow and very limited hardware.
Thank you and others
The program was indeed developed by a genius. Here is a description how it works:
https://www.chessprogramming.org/SuperChess
I'm not familiar with SuperChess, but Chris Whittington also authored the Chess System Tal program, which is amazing.
https://www.chessprogramming.org/Chess_System_Tal
Apr 2, 2021
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EscherehcsE wrote:
I'm not familiar with SuperChess, but Chris Whittington also authored the Chess System Tal program, which is amazing.
Yes. He made the strongest chess program for Spectrum in 1989.
I just hoped that his early work with very limited RAM would be easier. That was my mistake.
Hello,
I feel very depressed. I tried hard but I cannot win or even achieve a draw against an old hardware with 9 kB of RAM (most of which consumed the program)
Look ahead (depth?) was set to 3 and the program took less than 20 seconds to think...
That means that chess.com bots at lower rating and other chess games make mistakes and blunders on purpose and it is not much fun playing against them.
So far chess is a huge stress for me unless I play against a weaker opponent.