Hello!
The last couple OTB games I have played with Assistance Level 6 I have been shocked to see some extremely rudimentary blunders and mistakes.
I understand that I am not a grand master, but I can’t see any point to the moves I have included below.
Most of the time I am pretty impressed with the strength but occasionally (especially when I’m losing?) there are some pretty terrible mistakes that I don’t see as a sacrifice or tactical advantage?
If anyone has an answer please let me know.
Thank you - Thomas
The bug is the computer recommends random moves? Or is it merely suggesting the error move it would have made to make it look human if it was playing that color?
That’s a really great question that I didn’t think of @DavidS. That may be the case that it is intentional, but the green moves I have included above do not look like an error any decent chess player would make.
From what I believe the future update of interactive bots are supposed to fill the role of playing like a person.
Looking closer at these. If you are about to be checkmated - then it can be suggesting the move that delays checkmating the longest. Which can be throwing away pieces.
I cannot see the entire board in the second image, but for the first:
I’ve also had similar situations playing with friends lower rated than me, where it lists what looks like a completely useless piece sacrifice as a green move, and it ends up leading to them feeling frustrated that they can’t rely on the assistance.
As I don’t see all the pieces and the whole board, it’s hard to tell in this example. Seems to me that the knight COULD be doomed and with the green move at least takes a pawn before it goes?
In our experience of digging into a lot of “assistance is wrong tickets” - there are generally 3 categories:
The assistance is actually right and it is just tricky spot. This is what the majority turn out to be
Our embedded engine was being used (which that is disabled for assistance in a future update - it was a bug that it was on)
A game got out of sync. This does happen on occasion. Our new release should patch most of these.
We need the full position to troubleshoot.
Also - you can use https://nextchessmove.com/ to verify and to create a FEN string (which makes it easy for us to verify)
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Some things to consider (2 very similar situations)
Horizon effect. If the engine can see a loss coming, but some weird moves push that loss beyond it’s vision… it thinks it is doing something smart by throwing away pieces to avoid seeing the loss.
If the engine knows it is going to lose, it will start throwing away pieces to delay the loss. This is actually the preferred behavior - delay, delay
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So when mating situations come up (and they could be obscure, like mate in 9)… sometimes moves from engines seem weird.
But we do have a release on the way that takes care of a lot of the #2 and #3 situations as well. That is Monday’s release
@Jeff thank you so much! You clearly analyzed the move much better than I did Sorry I didn’t get a better picture for the second image, that’s my bad.
I really appreciate it!
The reasons you listed above make total sense and explain why these unique moves have occurred when I’m losing.
Sorry I didn’t get a better picture for the second image, that’s my bad.