blunder VS maia-chess

I found Blunder to be pretty accessible.

I’m assuming you’re the same author that wrote Blunder here https://github.com/algerbrex/blunder? If so, I appreciate your work. Your engine was really helpful when I started getting into computer chess. I’m the author of https://github.com/OliveriQ/Horowitz. Haven’t had much time to work on it lately due to exams, but when I have the time I will come back to it.

Some of you might recall, but a couple of months ago now I came here to this subreddit ask if any strong players would be willing to play my chess engine I've developed from scratch, Blunder. And then a month or so after that I came back again, after improving the engine significantly, asking if I could get more strong players to test it again.

I used Golang to program it. It was a nice trade-off between design speed and execution speed. Almost Python and C had a baby. You can check out the code here if you like: https://github.com/algerbrex/blunder. Feel free to look around or do whatever.

this is awesome! Maybe you can integrate it with blunder to offer computer opponents as well?

Your code style is inconsistent/bad. For example THIS commit. Some variables start with lowercase letter. Other variables start with uppercase letter. Also there are unneeded abbreviations. For example "tm". Better if it is timeManager. Or BonusMG, pv line (not sure if it is an actual thing or if it is your abbreviation. I might be wrong in this), KPrecision... Unless it is commonly understood abbreviation then do not make stuff like this your own. It is difficult for other people to read your code and understand it. And uppercase vs lowercase inconsistency is just bad.

Some of you might remember, but a while ago I came here asking if strong players would be willing to play the chess engine I created from scratch, Blunder. And I got some great responses and feedback, so thank you again for those.

I eventually will get Blunder (my engine's name) running on a lichess bot account, but for now, the way to use Blunder would be to go here, download the zip file titled "blunder-7.2.0", unzip it, and use your favorite chess GUI to install the correct executable version for your platform. I provide Windows, macOS, and Linux builds.

This was studied with the Maia series of bots. See:

https://github.com/CSSLab/maia-chess

There is a very interesting project on this exact problem called Maia, which trains an engine based on millions of human games played on Lichess, specifically targeting varying levels of skill from 1300 to 1900 Elo. I haven't played it myself, by my understanding is that it does a much better job imitating the mistakes of human players. https://maiachess.com

In general the goal of these progrms is to win, not to pretend to be human.

In chess, there is a project called Maia which aims at predicting the human move rather than the best move. Even then it blunders less than humans of a similar rating, so it can still be detected.

https://maiachess.com/

Maia Chess

It's on GitHub, you just need an interface like Nibbler.

That's exactly what Maia Chess is designed to do. https://maiachess.com/

If you wanna play a more human like bot check out Maia https://maiachess.com/

If you want to play an engine who plays a lot more like a human, you should try Maia Chess.