in this video i'm going to take on five
of chess.com's bots from 250 to 1300 i'm actually going to end
the video by playing nelson who everybody hates because he always brings out
his queen and tries to take all of your pieces and the point of this video is the fact that i
know that a lot of people like to play the bots it's a little bit less stressful than playing a
live person at the end i will give you my advice of how you should combine playing with bots and
playing with humans uh but let's just see how to do this okay i'm going to change color game by
game i will start out actually with the black pieces so i will give wayne the black pieces wayne
is 250 wayne is from is this singapore singapore e4 okay let's go e5 see what oh my goodness oh
well good thing i uh made my video recently on bringing the queen out so early opponent says
a great opening for sharp play no this is just not good the point is to attack the pawn and
laser beam us here i'm just going to play the move knight c6 best move then my opponent is going
for a checkmate and has nothing to say by the way so there's a few ways to prevent this the best one
is to just go g6 now because the pawn is protected queen slides back to hit this i'm actually
going to offer my opponent the queen trade it's not the best move necessarily but the queen
trade will make the position a lot easier to play uh and uh yeah exactly see now my opponent
says no i can't live without my queen so let's play bishop g7 finishing our development
and then we're going to castle what what it what this is one of the reasons actually i'm
not i'm just going to castle my king i don't believe in playing bots actually the
the reason is like king e2 moves like this bots play completely normal chess and then they
do something completely insane right uh i already have a check do i need to play it i mean it's not
a bad move it attacks the king and the pawn but the king will just slide out of danger i can also
play d6 and get this bishop into the game somehow uh maybe offer a trade of bishops that seems
like a fair trade okay opponent doesn't see like the bot is just moving
its king back and forth which is it's not like losing but it it it's also not
how human beings play no human being would play like this right but we have to start with this
bot because it is the lowest level let me take so now what you're not even
going to take my bishop but well okay i guess i'll move my bishop out all
right so with the king stuck in the middle i want to play d5 at some point so that we can trade and
i can open up a line of attack if i play d5 now my opponent controls that two times and the bishop
is pinning the pawn to the rook so i can solve all these problems by playing this rook over so
that then on the next move i can play pawn to d5 now my bishop's out of the way sorry the
the rook is out of the way of this bishop and i can open up the center of
the board i think the king is gonna okay so wayne clearly just doesn't take pieces i
think that's that's the programming here because now i can just keep eating are you gonna take this
okay so i guess wayne is just literally programmed like not to take anything anyway we're going to
keep trying to open up the center of the board okay if that's the only lesson
that we take from this game then that will be the only lesson we take from
this game when i continue to just take everything that i am allowed to guys not taking a thing
knight here is a good move uh the bishop will open up to see this rook and the knight also
has vision on the bishop and this pawn okay now wayne takes something and loses a rook of course
you can take the bishop but rook is worth more and now we will just have to learn how to convert
this position i'm going to try to do this rather quickly because i don't want to spend too much
time and we will move oh that's another free rook yeah wow uh i feel kind of bad let's
defend the pawn and bring in the rook okay let's take the horse excuse
me while i get out of trouble wayne you're down 21 points of material
and this is checkmate in two moves rook takes pawn check defended and now rook down
i don't know what that was that was weird wayne that was a weird game but basically for
these early stages you have to avoid getting checkmated and if you just finish your development
and play principal chess the bots will blunder if you just don't go crazy the early stage bots will
absolutely make mistakes so for the next bot i'm gonna play with the white pieces against millika
um oh is that uh that's serbian okay let's play e4 b6 so e4 b6 interesting uh two
pawns in the center if you can without getting captured there like this this
is obviously not bad uh now two nights if we can you know two nights this is also protected against
this and now two bishops so our opponent isn't fighting in the center with any sort of pawns
here which means that we can kind of take as much central space as possible the standard good
move for the bishop there uh is because you can actually have vision on some of these pawns but
the bishop here doesn't threaten anything so i decided to put the bishop here bishop has now
moved two times which is not good it just moved here now it's moving here it's pinning the
knight to the king but what if i just castle and now let's move for a third time
okay i can go bishop e3 or bishop g5 let's go a little bit more aggressive
attacking the queen it's not necessarily okay i like how milika says
okay you can have my queen i mean oh sure all right well now we're up a queen
so just like last game we're gonna have to find a way to get to our opponent's position there are
moves like knight to g5 which attacked upon an f7 but i mean it's okay i mean i'll play it but
of course yeah it's just stopped with one move so now i'd like to move e5 to move
into the center attacking the bishop i was just gonna say this also frees up my
square for e4 to trade the light squared bishop because now that we're up material
we want to trade but uh i i ball free bishop now i want to go queen here but then it
will get taken but i want to go to f7 so what do i do i'm going to trade the light
squared bishop from my opponent now it's gone i'll put my queen on f3 attacking the pawn on
f7 good move very good move defending this uh we have a few options i mean i can bring a rook
to the open file so now i have a rook playing that knight used to protect this pawn that's a
concept called continuity by moving here we notice that this pawn now has no guard and it's a triple
fork and my opponent says giving check doesn't mean you are winning but what if i give check
and then take a rook and then take a second rook i like how these bots they've programmed
have the most illogical trash talk ever is that more free stuff this
queen is going to take everything check this out i'm pitting the pawn to the king
so this pawn is not actually protecting this pawn which means i can play rook takes pawn
check king cannot take because of this pawn cannot take because of the queen now i can
take this horse and then i will take this horse in reality what we're going to do here is give some
sort of ladder checkmate so the easiest thing to do uh once and okay my knight is under attack so
i'll just move it to be responsible the easiest thing to do in a position like this is to take the
material and make sure that you are not going to stalemate your opponent so make sure every move
is coming with a check that way it will never be a stalemate and now we have a check made in two we
have multiple checkmates in two one that i'm going to show you is the queen and knight pattern so i
would love to give a check here for it to be mate but i need the king on this square so i can put my
queen in front of the king protected by our knight so what i do is i give this check forcing the
king to move here and now the queen is like this in general as long as you stay principled
against the beginner bots two pawns in the center knights bishops out in castle they're going to do
something a little bit ridiculous in the very very very early stages quite frequently uh and i said
i was gonna play santiago i'm gonna give santiago the white pieces i'm gonna play with the black
pieces buenos dias go easy on me i'm just learning pretty straightforward indeed let's play a
sicilian defense against e4 here he says i'm already a little nervous the second move of the
game what do you mean nervous so d4 generally the whole point of putting the sicilian uh pawn
here is to take right we want to take is it going to bring his queen out okay night there yeah
there's no real way for me to hang on to this so i just have to get my knights and bishops
into the game so i'll start with this knight let's see if he plays knight takes right so now in
the sicilian you actually don't need to take this knight uh it does bring the queen out for white
but we don't have a way to really punish the queen for being there so this sicilian with g6 and a
bishop on g7 is known as the accelerated dragon is what i'm playing i'm playing the accelerated
dragon sicilian just developing my bishop to g7 from where it attacks the big diagonal wow
santiago is playing very well here if he takes my knight i'm just gonna take back so we're keeping
the tension between the knights uh i'm gonna develop my knight and then i'm gonna go castle the
king this is really impressive so far so good from santiago yeah i mean this is this is great i love
this uh we need to get the bishop into the game there's two ways to do this actually you can play
d5 right away just jumping into the middle i'm gonna play a bit more passively with d6 it's not
necessarily the best move but now queen d2 the point is you are lining up and trying to go here
i would imagine uh i can finish my development with my bishop i can also play this move knight
g4 which tries to trade off my knight for the bishop if the bishop were to take me i will take
back so knight g4 obviously cannot be a bad move and okay that is officially the first weird
move of the game see like i said all bots do this they're programmed to make a mistake at some
point uh our plan was to go here but if you notice the queen used to guard the knight our knight
and our bishop both hit this so by moving here the queen no longer defends the knight and we
could get tunnel vision here and just take the bishop because that was our plan but the opponent
has made a mistake that knight now has no guard right so we just take it and okay well now the
bot is basically malfunctioning the bot is doing what bots do so now that we are up material
we can trade i'm gonna trade both pieces this is not under attack uh so i can maybe move
my bishop out a square bring my rook next it's not a bad move now my rook is on the open file f3
okay i see the queen and the king lined up on the same diagonal i'm thinking that here maybe i can
play a move like queen b6 going for the weak pawn and i like that but there's one more move that's
very very tricky with the move queen to b6 uh and there it has to do with this
i'm thinking maybe i slide back here you know why i'm sliding back like i
said queen and king on the same diagonal bishop here would win it's a tactical pattern and
so i moved my knight back plopping my bishop into the square where my knight was pinning the queen
to the king and now i can take i'm trying to be careful but you still found a way to attack me
well you didn't take my free bishop santiago right i mean okay now you see this this
these games are kind of showing you how to beat the bots like survive be solid don't
blunder anything and they will self-destruct um and now just like the past few games that we've
played at some point it's going to be time to bring in our pawns shatter our opponents defenses
opening up the position now our rook is here but the most powerful piece that we have is the
queen so i'm going to bring my queen out to swarm the king and deliver some sort of checkmate the
queen now comes in again being that it is the most powerful piece we have we should look to get
it involved uh now i can give a check the knight has to block and the easiest way to win this is
we need to add one more attacker to this knight like this and queen takes knight as
checkmate and that's the end of the game so this game honestly was pretty good i mean
we we had to know an opening you know we had to play principal chess like we had to
get both knights out put our bishop on a square castle short and uh create a position
which more or less looks like a standard game and then this is really like where i played maybe
the first kind of slightly tricky move which is knight g4 just basically trading my knight
for the bishop uh so that the bishop stops protecting this knight in the middle and the bot
just immediately played two very strange moves and we were up material the rest of the game was
simplifying finishing our development and then finding this one tactical little trick with the
queen and the king lined up if you don't do that and you just play like you know queen b6 going
for pawns that's also fine but throughout the game it's constantly monitoring what what
are they attacking can they capture anything and so for the next few games these are the more
intermediate bots uh this next bot is named maria uh maria loves to sacrifice an attack don't accept
too many of her gifts because there are often strings attached okay sounds absolutely
terrifying let's see what happens hola i hope you're ready for some spicy chess
let's play d4 i'm gonna play a london whoa the england gambit against d4 well
great pawn takes pawn i mean i like material f6 okay well what if i take that
two that's just two free pawns bishop b4 check so the best move here since
my opponent didn't take back is to play pawn c3 attacking the bishop and maintaining this
threat i'm not going to do that because even though it is the best move if i play c3 the
game is literally gonna end in five moves and uh i don't want that to happen i actually
want there to be some instructional value here uh so let me play bishop to d2 i
just honestly i want my opponent oh my opponent just hung the bishop what is what
what is going on here okay now i'm gonna play c3 again i want to make a slightly longer game oh
my goodness what are what are these bots doing why wouldn't you just go here to threaten
a checkmate okay now i'm gonna continue my development but if anything this should give
all of you some confidence that these bots play some really crazy and weird stuff let's go
e3 bishop out and then i'm gonna castle my king bishop out and then i'm gonna castle my king whoa
good move i was really hoping my opponent wouldn't do that pawn in the center hits the bishop in
fact it's not good to put a bishop in the center if it can get hit with a pawn attacking it so now
i'm gonna have to slide my bishop out of danger wow what is this are we trying to create
some sort of attack on my king here or just in general very aggressive okay in
positions where you're lacking space which i kind of am it's important to find a way to
trade pawns to in an advantageous manner for example this move is not a trade uh this move
however is a trade if i play c3 c4 because then i can open up my position and my knight gets out
that's exactly what i'm going to do now my bishop is in the game a little bit more if my opponent
plays knight takes d5 they are pinning themselves to their own piece so here i can add a piece
to attack the knight like with knight to c3 however if my opponent takes my knight taking the
queen here you have to understand your queen is also under attack but then you go here that's
called a captured chain so for example they get a knight i get a queen they get a queen i
get a bishop which is a fair trade and at the end of that i am still threatening to take the
knight and my bishop is still threatening this so that trade actually works out quite well for me
right then i take the bishop this knight is stuck and my bishop is threatening to take so now it's
a good instructive moment do i take the knight or do i take the pawn and you will say well levy of
course you should take what's worth more not quite because i should actually take the pawn that will
result in attacking two more pieces and the knight is still in danger if i just take the knight i
lose my bishop so it's important to think what our opponent is going to do so bishop there well
now i'm definitely going to take the rook here and this knight has to get out by taking the pawn
the knight does get out by taking the pawn i'll improve the position of my bishop very slightly
or maybe attack it with the rook very tough to see the difference this is under attack so i'll move
my bishop to kind of have a long diagonal control okay can't take that so let's bring the only
piece not playing into the game which is my rook it sees this knight that is just
a free knight okay that was weird rook h7 and now i i the the easiest
thing to do here is to swarm the enemy with our rooks so we got rooks from both
directions this is a good move defending uh maybe i bring my bishop back to attack
the rook that doesn't seem like a bad move is that a free pawn now looks like a
free pawn to me also attacking the rook rook goes there attacking our bishop okay so let's
slide the bishop out of danger and counter-attack the rook and we just take it okay now we can do
something called simplifying if i take the knight i lose a rook but i get a bishop two pieces for
the rook is a good deal even though i lose a piece that's supposed to be worth a lot and for this
game we are going to bring the rook back and try to checkmate our opponent with uh rook bishop and
knight just if possible we're not going to promote any queen and i want to do this just to show
you how all these pieces coordinate knight to g5 check okay uh now we can push our pawn
because i want to play bishop to f6 check i want to play bishop to f6
creating a little box here for the king oh and it's just checkmate that was
very fast i thought the king was going to run away but actually we created a barrier here so this
is covered by the knight this is covered by the bishop and this will be covered by the rook
so rook and bishop create this little box and then the knight takes away the square also the
pawn can take away the square if you don't have a knight the pawn can take away the square i know
we had made in one but i just want to kind of show how these three pieces can create a very powerful
box and i think in general like gambits against the queen's pawn are not very good white can get
a very good position and then just be solid yes i could have won the game a lot faster but i
don't want to just like win in three moves i feel like that's not as instructive as playing
the game out for a longer period of time now it is time to play nelson i think i will
play nelson in two games because nelson uh brings the queen out extremely early
and uh well let's see queen h5 very good like i said knight c6 we had this against an
earlier bot people hate playing nelson nelson just tends to fight uh okay well that's a bad
move nelson tends to fight with just the queen bishop b4 or bishop c5 are both good moves you
don't need to go too crazy yet i'm going to play bishop b4 just in case i ever want to make
this trade okay knight to the middle take take and then i can move my knight to the center that
looks pretty good let's also not forget what oh fascinating okay so two of my
pieces are under attack here well i mean look i've already moved my
knight right and it hasn't been taken so i can just sacrifice my knight for a pawn i
mean i'm gonna lose one of my pieces anyway that's called a desperado i'm gonna make this trade
because normally it's a bad trade but now i just move my my bishop out of danger and i'm up a pawn
rather than having lost another piece okay nelson you are very hostile okay let's move the uh the
bishop out of danger what are you gonna go here okay well castle right when in doubt got
to get my king out of the middle bishop c4 is there a threat doesn't look
like it although there could be uh there very well could be a thread the
knight could come to g5 on the next move so the bishop hits this the queen hits this makes
me start thinking like should i somehow find a way uh to make a trade here if possible so the first
thing that i'm thinking of is queen f6 it's not a pretty move but at least i get nelson's queen
off the board and it it might be worth damaging my pawn structure and wow nelson just goes for it
immediately uh okay he goes for a rook attack so i can move my rook here or here i honestly don't
know the difference i guess i'm just gonna go here and what i'm gonna do through oh my gosh there it
is that's the legendary bot move in the middle of a game that makes absolutely zero sense i have no
clue why nelson did that i mean it was actually a pretty good position for nelson i was going to
go here in here trying to trade the bishops i'm still going to go here but now okay we can go here
here or here let's bring the knight this way i'll reroute that's what that's called i'll reroute
the knight to this side of the board uh from where it'll control some squares my bishop is very
strong and now i think for this next phase of the game once we finish developing all of our pieces
well that's just a free pun so i don't need to i don't need to finish my development here
now i'll bring the bishop back and for this next stage of the game we are going to find pawn
breaks to open our position in an advantageous way if i take this the bishop takes so let's uh
let's open the position here in the center interesting i'm going to open this so i can bring
my my rook okay well yeah i mean now nelson's malfunctioning so i think nelson is programmed
to to just survive the first 15 moves of the game oh my goodness what is that what is going
on can't i just push isn't that just a fork f2 just what all right now let's just push our
a pawn oh on poissant that's what that was um for the rest of the game oh my rook is hanging
be careful you know what i feel bad for nelson i almost want to give nelson my rook but i'm not
going to that's not a bad move i'm gonna go here so i can potentially get in on the open file so
let's just push our pawn this is not in any danger let's just push our pawn let's just push our
pawn that's not free by the way protected let's just push our pawn nelson's
not doing anything about my pawn now i can't promote it yet because of this rook so
i think it's time to maybe bring in my second rook we saw this same pattern last game against maria
and now the same concept i can give away my rook for two pieces you see that rook for knight in
bishop simplifying the game okay i'm very happy to see that trade now i'm just there's just a
bishop left and the way you get this through is you put the rook like this on the first rank
making sure that it is protected by your past pawn so rook b1 and that's it we are guaranteed a queen
here because even if the rook is not taken we take the rook and we make the queen uh and basically at
this point you need to make sure the king cannot escape how do we do that we can play moves
like bishop c4 preventing the king's escape queen check and the king is in a little box it
goes to the back rank and we play bishop to b3 bishop b3 looks like stalemate which is
when you're not checking your opponent but they have no legal moves in fact
the king doesn't have a legal move there but the pawns do so we can play bishop b3 one of
the pawns has to move and we deliver a checkmate on c2 and nelson has been slain and i will give
nelson one more game it says i made a mistake it says i made a mistake when did i
make a mistake i didn't make any well what this i don't really interesting maybe
castling wasn't so good this was the most important move of the game because if in this
position you just develop a pawn naturally and allow knight g5 you can be in some serious
trouble and i think i anticipated the move knight g5 here which is the most instructive
moment as i said because it it it felt like white it was gonna start getting a big attack
let's also not forget that we cannot take the knight because of the bishop so uh that is an
issue but i had to trade the queens just to remove all attacking chances and look how quickly
nelson fell apart once we got the queens off the board right so i'm gonna play nelson one more game
this game i will have white uh because everybody hates playing nelson so let me show you how to
beat nelson with the white pieces too so e4 e5 knight f3 and i think nelson's gonna go here i
think nelson is programmed to play this move right so you just put two knights out i mean you might
as well uh i can already begin chasing by the way but two pawns in the center is generally if
you can do it do it two pawns in the center and trade nelson's queen this is what i recommend
just get the queen off the board ah yes fantastic nelson has been nerfed knight c6 what are our
options protect move out of the way or or take i'm going to play knight b5 i think creating a
threat here on c7 and nelson just allows it nelson i've got an audience here you can't just be making
blunders like that my goodness nelson i want to get a longer game i'm actually not going to i'm
not going to do it i'm going to spare nelson okay well now if i take at least it's not a fork
i'm gonna castle like i said i wanna make this a bit more instructive if you've made it this far
in the video okay now i'll take but like we were trying to beat a 1300 level bot you know so knight
d5 i'll bring the knight back hitting the bishop i can take i can also just finish
development i like this move this move attacks the rook we have a lot of good
moves here so if you see a move and i don't play it it doesn't necessarily mean my move is better
honestly i'm just i'm just trying to kind of make progress in the position now we have a little
tactical combination so i'd like to land this check but i cannot because the bishop is covering
if i take the bishop and then the knight takes and then i give this check i will be hitting
the king and the knight so we take which is one of our most forcing moves picking up
three points of material nelson takes back and now we have bishop here check and we will be
winning the night the bishop takes we did it yay now what well i see a king on the other side so i want to open up the middle of the board maybe
i can do that by putting my knight here if nelson takes i take back it is protected and the e file
is wide open okay so maybe something like bishop somewhere so i can maybe i'll put my rook
first setting up a little sneaky attack here now i can even take the pawn by the way
because even though it looks like can be taken the rook is checking the king uh
this can be captured with the rook because my bishop is protecting okay so now any
move i make with my rook is going to be a check uh because my bishop will be attacking i can
win a pawn or oh i can set up something so mean i want to go here because then if the king
right now the king can take the rook cannot take this is a double check with my bishop and
it's actually also mate the problem is that if i move my rook down the king can take it but
not if i bring a reinforcement of a second rook that would be an issue and that's exactly why my
opponent does this now i play rook to e8 double check king to g7 and i can slide the bishop
back attacking the king on the diagonal rather than taking either of the rooks of course i
can take the rooks as well and i think now i will do that transitioning the game into an
end game where i have a big lead of material we'll win this by promoting this pawn so how do we
do that we have to move the bishop out of the way uh that's there's nothing there i mean that
that's a free pawn i can take it but i think i'm more interested in in this pushing
the pawn although is king g5 gonna happen nelson's aggressive with king end with queen
that is a bit annoying although we can use a pattern from the game we had last time i can
leave my bishop and play this rook down thing defended by my pawn it's literally the exact
same pattern that we had in the last game now i take the rook i move the rook out of the
way and i make a queen yes i can take this but now i believe we will swarm the
king and deliver mate queen takes f6 protected king here rook czech king
here f3 is checkmate in one move there you go a little pre-move there style points
there look at that nelson has been defeated with white in with black i hope this was helpful if
there's any other bots that you want me to play on chess.com that annoy you please let me know
but as i said in the final part of this video i will talk a little bit about bots in general and
why i'm actually not a big fan of playing them so people play bots because in general they feel a
little bit of stress uh playing against you know actual people in rated games they get some
sort of anxiety they feel like playing the bots they can just restart if they make
a mistake or something along those lines and that's okay if you get you know if you're fine
playing bots and practicing against them that's completely up to you what i will say is as
you've seen from the games in this video bots are programmed to basically do normal stuff
and then just completely explode at some point bots don't always play real openings they'll play
like two moves of an opening and then do something completely insane and that's one of the reasons
why it's better to just find a training partner one of the best ways to do that is to join a
chess community like we have a discord with over 12 000 people in it jump in there and play
play against the person play unrated games if it gives you anxiety um the only real incorporation
in in my chess career that i ever used of bots uh is just uh analyzing my game with a computer
that's my personal opinion but uh if you like the bots and you want to keep playing against them
hopefully this video was helpful it shows you that if you just stay solid and don't do anything
insane within the first 10 or 15 moves the bots just totally malfunction one more piece of advice
bonds tend to play instantly right you saw in these they respond within one or two seconds
take your time do not play at the bot space you set the pace of the game and you will be
victorious all right see you in the next video
