#Chess online aginsy stupid computer how to

Like someone already mentioned, the bots occasionally throw in some really stupid blunders that even a lower rated player is not likely to make.Ī lot of people seem to see chess as a competition against their opponent and want to destroy them and climb as high as they can in their ratings. But I feel like the only real way to measure progress is to play other people. So I started playing the bots just to get back into it and maybe get a snapshot of where I was in terms of the bots.

#Chess online aginsy stupid computer how to

I had heard of pawn structure, backward pawns, doubled pawns, holes, etc., but I never really studied them in depth to know what they really meant or how to take advantage of them. In that regard I treated my return to chess as starting from scratch. The point? What is your goal? My goal is just to be a better player than I’ve been before. I did play in one local USCF tournament in San Diego in the late 70’s, losing my first four games and only winning the fifth game because I was paired against someone who was apparently a weaker player than me. I was good enough to win most of my casual games against friends and acquaintances but probably wasn’t good enough to beat an average club player. (I joined in October of 2020.) I was mostly a casual player who did some studying of tactics, openings and games, but my studying was intermittent and superficial. I’ve played chess off and on since I was about 10, but only started playing again after >15 years. Long answer: I think it depends on what your chess goals are, if any. Short answer: I prefer playing people to bots.