Polecat Alternatives

Similar projects and alternatives to Polecat

maia-chess

97 891 1.6 Python Polecat VS maia-chess

Maia is a human-like neural network chess engine trained on millions of human games.
TrappyBeowulf

4 3 10.0 C Polecat VS TrappyBeowulf

A modification of the Beowulf chess engine to use Trappy Minimax
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What is your unpopular chess opinion?
2 projects | /r/chess | 24 Aug 2022

And in fact Trappy Beowulf, which attempts to set traps in the hopes that its human opponents will fall victim to them, already slightly outperforms normal Beowulf. I have also since been made aware of Polecat, an engine trained to play trappily against humans. So I don't think it's unreasonable to suggest that in some situations, playing an objectively-worse move can yield better results.
How close are we to perfect chess strategy?
2 projects | /r/chess | 4 Jul 2022

Au contraire! Polecat and Trappy Beowulf exist; the latter actually managed to get a higher rating on ICC than normal Beowulf did, when playing against human players.
Does a chess engine exists that makes mistakes, but ultimately those mistakes force a single unnatural human moves from the opponent? IE: Retreat back 1 square, pin queen to king. move piece to a multi-defended square, sack the exchange, move piece on the other side of the board, etc.
3 projects | /r/chess | 28 Jun 2022

I'm aware of an engine called Polecat, which plays in such a way so as to provoke blunders from human players; it uses Maia to predict what sorts of blunders humans are likely to play.
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