How can there be “weak” chess bots?

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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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The bad chess bots are taught to play chess bad. Some bots, are just not as good as other, while martin, its programmed to lose. The same way games have different level difficulty, or different level cpus.

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