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[–] NocturnalMorning 40 points 11 months ago (3 children)

The problem with those other games is that there's so many decisions they have to make its easy for them to be dumb. Chess is such a simple game from the standpoint of a computer that it can play out thousands of move sets in a few seconds. I hate it (and I know, I ruined the joke, sorry).

I just really want badly to be good at chess, and the computers always ruin my moral

[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I've been pretty into chess lately, and it's such a deep and wonderful game. Even if computers are better than us, there's still a huge ladder to climb between learning how the horsey moves and becoming Magnus Carlsen.

[–] NocturnalMorning 2 points 11 months ago

Oh, sooo true.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

My friends and I are decent at chess and we have been enjoying playing bullet games of Bughouse - would definitely recommend you check it out if you aren't aware of it! The luck and randomness of it I find easier than classical chess all the time

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

I keep hearing people mention "bughouse" but have yet to check out what it is. I'll look it up!

[–] Takumidesh 14 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

A bot can be very easily made to be effectively unstoppable in an fps, just look at hacking players.

Just as a chess bot can be made dumb as a box of rocks.

They just serve different purposes, for example in counter strike, bots are nerfed in purpose in order to discourage kicking other players to replace them with a bot that would do better.

Chess bots are also the target of computer science researchers, very few if any, serious academics are focusing their time developing a bot for a game that is either a flash in the pan as far as popularity, or actively discouraged by the arbiters of the game.

[–] Lifecoach5000 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Just play me. I’ll prob give you a boost of ego and self esteem to go along with it.

[–] Lifecoach5000 4 points 11 months ago

Lol “ego” was supposed to be ELO but I’m leaving it