AI practice bot (but with a difference)

So I know you can practice against the boys with custom positions but it’s deeply unsatisfying because of the way bots on here work. Basically, unlike humans, bots play excellent moves. So in order to make weak bots it seems like you have them play every N move as stupid. The weaker the bot the closer the Ns.

I wanna practice as if I were playing a human on chess.com. Otherwise why bother?

Would it be possible to have a bot that drew its knowledge from the chess.com opening data base? So, for example, if I want to practice the London against 1300s it would give my ‘the most likely’ move, statistically, by someone at that level.

This would be invaluable practice. I feel like you could use the opening explorer to do this.

As noted bots don’t do this.

For instance, at the moment I am trying to practice the Stafford gambit. I set up the position from white taking the knight and black pawn takes knight.

According to Eric Rosen there are several common responses. He talks through them in a video.

I have tried several bots of varying levels and NONE will play these common responses. They will all play completely different moves but all bots will play THE SAME moves as each other.

It’s not helpful to practice you see?

Anyway please consider making a “regular chess.com player” bot with common moves, OR some kind of opening practice function.

Keep up the good work!

Should say ‘bots’ not boys

It's probably technically possible, but the variability among players of any given rating is going to be wildly divergent. Add to that, any database is going to quickly run out of any similar positions, likely within the first 6-10 moves, so some fallback method of move choice would be needed.

 

I also don't think the site has a member database configured where it could be used like that.