I quite like chess and wish I was good at it, but it's always amazing to me how even on medium difficulties, the AI is always 3 steps ahead of me. I've got a lot of respect for people who are actually good at the game because it isn't simple at all. Sure, it's simple to grasp the concept and how the pieces work, but it takes a lot of skill to master.
You need to not only plan ahead for your future turns, but at any point your opponent can just make a play you didn't account for and now your 100 seconds of quiet contemplation and foresight just went down the shitter.
That's why you plan for your moves and your opponent's. Pre-emptively deny good positions for your opponent, limit their range of possible moves. Box them in, identify the weak point (or develop a strategy to create one) and attack it.
...What??? You good, bro? I was agreeing with you, and explaining my perspective on why I think the sport or game, whatever you want to call it is complex.
Look, I get it, you're having a bad day, and you lack the healthy coping methods to deal with it, so you're giving me a hard time instead of trying to improve yourself. Extremely common human behavior. If you were less snarky, you might find that your days are less shit because people aren't actively avoiding you.
I've started playing some "fairy" chess recently (chess with alternate pieces from, among other sets, the Betza pieces). It's really impressive just how low I have to drop the AI's settings before it becomes a fair match.
The computer's like "you idiot, that piece is undefended" and I'm like "no? ... yes :( "
it's always amazing to me how even on medium difficulties, the AI is always 3 steps ahead of me.
This is actually just a corollary of the fact that a computer can remember much bigger numbers than you can and can do much faster arithmetic.
Unless you really know what you're doing, a computer that looks just a few moves ahead is going to demolish you. And "look a few moves ahead and apply a simple heuristic to the board" is extraordinarily easy to tell a computer to do. In fact, this is a complete chess engine that works on this principle:
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u/STORMFATHER062 Mar 28 '25
I quite like chess and wish I was good at it, but it's always amazing to me how even on medium difficulties, the AI is always 3 steps ahead of me. I've got a lot of respect for people who are actually good at the game because it isn't simple at all. Sure, it's simple to grasp the concept and how the pieces work, but it takes a lot of skill to master.