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All models are wrong: some models are useful. Turns out this was not one of those useful models.

You beat me to the punch. This.

And if I, as a total amateur, saw someone never touching their queen or rooks, I'd think they had some devious strategy that I couldn't fathom. It would be intimidating.

If you haven't seen it yet, I'd recommend this really good video by Tom7 youtu.be/DpXy041BIlA

Well, I know what the next month of chess content on youtube is going to be...

It's impossible that this didn't work

The King has never actually been captured. Ever.

The new engine reverses the alphabetical sorting and chooses the middle move.

This is my new underdog fandom.

youtu.be/DpXy041BIlA?...

The mate in 1 is fairly obvious, but there's a somewhat interesting mate in 5 to find as well.

You actually implemented this didn't you

What if theres an even number of legal moves?

Ha! This but for backgammon.

Stay with it. You've got him.

I mean, was it even a question that Artificial Stupid was never going to be a winning strategy?

That a pawn will never move in it's lifetime.

Still better than a Beta move. Much more sigma.

I uh... actually like this idea. Add a little chaos to the order.

Sounds like democracy, leadership by average.

White: Why take your King so far out? You're asking for a Checkmate....

Black, mate in 1: (...) Bb4.

Sebastian Lague did something like this except it was a restriction on the number of symbols in the language. youtu.be/Ne40a5LkK6A?...

pretty fast, though

clever

Quick, someone call Tom7, there's a new bad chess bot to add to the collection

I can't recall for sure but if that intrigues you you'll probably love this either way bsky.app/profile/mrfe...

I don’t know whether it’s overly aggressive, but the quirkiest bot I’ve played against is chess.com’s Nelson, who’s programmed to spam early queen moves like a lot of aggressive novice players.

Try sorting by arranging piece locations on two separate matrices for each the letters and numbers then multiplying them and throwing a dart at the resulting combined matrix It may not result in legal moves but you will never lose the element of surprise.

My chess engine uses a Mixture of Experts design (posts to r/chess asking for advice and makes the most upvoted move)

Do checkers. Shorter list.

I'm no chess pro, but a would move the rook to h3. It would give another layer of protection for the king if the queen would enter row 3.

Have you tried the one that sorts the available legal moves by efficiency, and then chooses the most irrational one? Human players hate that tactic, there is no strategic counter.

Well done! I yield.

Queen side pawns patiently waiting for the entire rest of the board to die.

impressive

It’s an old trick, but it just might work.

Unironically a fun gamejam theme, simple sorting game decisions LoL

Mate in 1 for black

Play would depend on computer locale settings.

surprising!

Shouldn't that be called "MedianMove"?

It's about legal moves, so the first few will be pawns as there are 4 legal knight moves at the start of the match (and the top of the list) but 16 legal pawn moves

LOL I wrote a chess engine for fun a year ago and the first pass just picked a random legal move. It probably would have been an even match for AlphaMove.

Ngl I'd want to play against this

It is known as median versus kurtosis and it is the basis for making history a hard science.

MID?

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This guy gets it

*deepseek obvs.

wow