Feature suggestion: Option to draw a game against bots - Chess Forums

Hay203

Jun 21, 2025

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#1

Can we have an option to allow draws against bots? Because I was in a K+N vs. K+N against a bot, and I wouldn't be able to figure out how to checkmate, and I don't want to wait for the 50-move rule. Can we please have this feature? Thanks!

GraysonKellogg

14 days ago

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#2

Hay203 wrote:

Can we have an option to allow draws against bots? Because I was in a K+N vs. K+N against a bot, and I wouldn't be able to figure out how to checkmate, and I don't want to wait for the 50-move rule. Can we please have this feature? Thanks!

Yes!!! I agree! There should be an “offer draw” feature in bot games.

SacrifycedStoat

13 days ago

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#3

That wouldn’t really work because bots here aren’t unique.
From what I’ve heard, they don’t have different ways of evaluating positions (if they did, they could accept draws when they thought they were losing).
They’re all the same engine but with different opening books and different likelihoods to play a bad move.
How would the bot decide to accept a draw?

GraysonKellogg

13 days ago

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#4

SacrifycedStoat wrote:

That wouldn’t really work because bots here aren’t unique.
From what I’ve heard, they don’t have different ways of evaluating positions (if they did, they could accept draws when they thought they were losing).
They’re all the same engine but with different opening books and different likelihoods to play a bad move.
How would the bot decide to accept a draw?

If the actual computer evaluation is 0.0 or in your favor, they’d accept. Otherwise, they’d reject. It doesn’t have to be too fancy.

Fet

12 days ago

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#5

Yes!!