In today’s day and age, computers are obviously way better at chess than humans, and even the best players in the world have a hard time holding a candle to engines like Stockfish, etc. However, what I don’t understand is how is it possible to have them in different levels of strength. For example, on Chess.com, there are dozens of bots that you can play against depending on your own level. But for the weakest ones, how does this work? One would think that an engine either knows how to play chess efficiently, or it doesn’t. How can you “dumb down” a computer to the level of an intermediate player or even a beginner? Thanks!
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You know how parents will play games with their kids and make poor moves on purpose so that the kid can win? Yeah…. Most people can’t beat the computer, it’s letting us win because of our infant like intelligence level. The difficulty setting is telling it how many mistakes to make.
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