# Stockish playing games **URL:** \ **Category:** General\ **Created:** [April 18, 2025, 4:22pm UTC](https://community.playchessup.com/t/stockish-playing-games/3164 "2025-04-18T16:22:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Kingofwaldo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@Kingofwaldo](https://community.playchessup.com/u/Kingofwaldo)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2025, 4:22pm UTC](https://community.playchessup.com/t/stockish-playing-games/3164/1 "2025-04-18T16:22:08Z")
Usually i go to [chess.com](http://chess.com) and play the bots so it gets recorded and can be analyzed, but i decided to play the stockfish AI at 1900 elo . in the endgame , stockfish was ahead with a Q, R , B , and about 5 pawns. Several times it had me in a mate in one , but instead , it moved around where i could escape and just kept doing this . At 1900 elo i would expect it to finish me off . Whats up with this . ? sure , i should have just resigned, but its nice to see the the tactics even if you’re losing . Anyone else see this happening?? By the way, i already reported it as a bug report, but not sure if its a bug . anyway thanks for your input and remember, the Queen is nothing without a king !! ---
**Author:** ![Jeff](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.playchessup.com/jeff/32/3_2.png) [@Jeff](https://community.playchessup.com/u/Jeff)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2025, 5:26pm UTC](https://community.playchessup.com/t/stockish-playing-games/3164/2 "2025-04-18T17:26:19Z")
Engines struggle with playing below their strength. We have our own series of bots coming out later that will do a better job in these scenarios. But yeah - that is typical of stockfish set lower. ---
**Author:** ![Cornfed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e95f7d/32.png) [@Cornfed](https://community.playchessup.com/u/Cornfed)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2025, 12:50am UTC](https://community.playchessup.com/t/stockish-playing-games/3164/3 "2025-04-27T00:50:13Z")
Larry Kaufman was doing a really good job at tailoring his Komodo engine (bought by [chess.com](http://chess.com)) to different levels of play. They may even use his input/engine on their bots.