(04-21-2020, 03:01 PM)Senor Fantastico Wrote:

(04-21-2020, 08:01 AM)The Real Marty Wrote: Surprisingly, playing a person is really different from playing a computer.  People do unpredictable and strange things.  Some of them study weird openings in order to get an advantage.  If you play the computers, you can kind of get the hang of them after a while.  I've advanced myself over the 1200 level (My current rating is 1207), and I routinely beat the bots that are rated in the 1300s now.  So I'm slowly getting better.  But I'm still not studying at all.  Just playing.  

I'm also finding that caffeine or an energy drink raises my game by about 100 points.  

So, do you have a real rating, or are you just estimating?

I pretty reliably beat the computer on level 10 (1550 rating). Can you get a real rating playing against the computer?

My rating playing people in blitz games is 699. And yeah, people catch me in Scholars Mate and the like fairly often. Kinda learning I can see my own moves well but I'm pretty terrible at anticipating what the other player is developing. I also know very little about playing Black.

I don't know if it's a "real" rating or not, but you can get a rating.   It's free.  Register yourself, then play "live" chess and set the game to "rated."  Then play one of the bots.   I think they start you out with a default rating of 1,000.  But you have to play live chess: on a clock, no take-backs.  

When you choose "play," don't choose "computer."  Choose "live chess."   Then you can play either a rated bot or an actual person.  If you want to play a rated bot,  choose play, then choose live chess, then choose vs computer, then choose one of the rated bots.  

If you're playing "level 10" then you chose "computer" instead of "live chess."  Those levels are not on a time clock.  Although, if you are beating level 10, you are a really really good player, clock or no clock.  

When I started playing blitz games, I was terrible.  I'm just not used to moving that fast and I can make some incredible blunders, but I've gotten better at it and now I can play a blitz game at about an 1100 level, because the bots blunder just as much as I do.  

I prefer the 15/10 games.

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(04-21-2020, 11:18 PM)Sneakers Wrote:

(04-21-2020, 11:04 PM)The Drifter Wrote: At least the liquor stores are open here in Maryland so I can spend my days getting drunk lol

Essential services provider.

I'm old enough to remember drive-through liquor stores here in Jacksonville, where you could order a cocktail at the drive-through, and they'd hand you a mixed drink that you could consume while you were driving.  No top on it or anything.

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