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• ELI5: How can there be "weak" chess bots?

  Bots that are trying to play well, but are poorly coded. Not every chessbot is made by a team of people who know what they're doing. Every once in a while someone who is learning how to program will try their hand at making a bot from scratch. Or as a fun challenge will code a bot with some kind of restriction. SEE The Kilobyte's Gambit These kinds of bots often do play like people, but like beginners. They have... Source: about 1 year ago

• Anarchy chess

  Example: The website https://vole.wtf/kilobytes-gambit/ has a toy chess engine written in 1 kilobyte of Javascript. The website had to put this disclaimer at the bottom of the screen. Source: over 1 year ago

• What is a good bot to train on as a very early beginner?

  When I was starting out, when I was having a bad day I'd play against The Kilobytes gambit. Source: over 1 year ago

• Found this old Radio Shack chess computer in my uncle's department. Any knowledge about this?

  There's an entire chess engine which is just 1024 BYTES of Javascript: The Kilobyte's Gambit. Source: over 1 year ago

• How is it possible to win a chess match against AI?

  Much like humans - some AIs aren't very good. Unlike checkers or Connect 4 chess isn't "solved": there's no existing AI or strategies that can win 100% of the time. Chess is just much too complicated for that, as the number of available moves becomes truly ridiculous as a game goes on. High level AI in Chess is very good, and barring some sort of time control espionage can't be beat by humans in any capacity. But... Source: almost 2 years ago