I am a huge fan of chess.com, and one of the coolest features on chess.com (in my opinion) is the bots. One bot that has always intrigued me, though, is the Paul Morphy bot. I think that it's great to be able to play against one of the great players of the past. This bot got me thinking about an old chess program that I used to have called Chessmaster. This program had different personalities that were based on famous players of the past like Bobby Fischer, Mikhail Botvinnik, and Alexander Alekhine. My point with all of my rambling is simply this: What if chess.com added another section to their bots called "Great Players of the Past" or something similar. It would be awesome to play against personalities like Mikhail Tal or Tigran Petrosian.
Now, for the record, I don't exactly know how difficult it would be to program these chess personalities. However, my hunch is that if chess.com did it with Paul Morphy, Vishy Anand, and Wesley So, then it shouldn't be much more difficult to do it with other players.
I'm pretty sure most of the bots are all based on the same engine and have tweaks to their opening books and specific settings to manage certain parameters of the engine. If I had to guess, the site has already thought along those lines.
I am a huge fan of chess.com, and one of the coolest features on chess.com (in my opinion) is the bots. One bot that has always intrigued me, though, is the Paul Morphy bot. I think that it's great to be able to play against one of the great players of the past. This bot got me thinking about an old chess program that I used to have called Chessmaster. This program had different personalities that were based on famous players of the past like Bobby Fischer, Mikhail Botvinnik, and Alexander Alekhine. My point with all of my rambling is simply this: What if chess.com added another section to their bots called "Great Players of the Past" or something similar. It would be awesome to play against personalities like Mikhail Tal or Tigran Petrosian.
Now, for the record, I don't exactly know how difficult it would be to program these chess personalities. However, my hunch is that if chess.com did it with Paul Morphy, Vishy Anand, and Wesley So, then it shouldn't be much more difficult to do it with other players.