chess 5

I asked ChatGPT to play chess with Stockfish. Stockfish is a “strong open-source chess engine”. It has 8 levels of difficulty, which roughly maps to these FIDE levels: Stockfish FIDE Player Level & Description Level 1 ~1000 Beginner: Constantly blunders, hangs pieces deliberately. Level 2 ~1100 Advanced Beginner: Fewer obvious tactical mistakes, plays completely aimlessly. Level 3 ~1200 Early Intermediate: Punishes very basic errors but regularly drops pieces. Level 4 ~1350 Intermediate: Plays standard opening moves; requires solid, blunder-free play to beat. Level 5 ~1450 Advanced Intermediate: Rarely hangs single pieces; you need positional advantages. Level 6 ~1650 Strong Club Player: Highly tactical. Aggressively exploits your mistakes. Level 7 ~1950 Expert: Exceptionally strong. Requires precise positional mastery and deep calculation. Level 8 ~2400 Grandmaster: Invincible for most humans. Plays with ruthless perfection. Full Engine ~3600 Our of human reach completely, “like a smart ant trying to debate physics with a human.” In the first iteration, here were the results: ...

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I’m leaving for Scotland tonight, and will be back on Monday morning. Await interesting stories… While academics has prevented any outdoor adventures over the last few weeks, the underground has been an unending source of intrigue. This morning, for example, I decided to take a survey of what people in the underground were reading. People on the trains would either read something, talk on their mobiles, or listening to a walkman. The last category are uninteresting. The only mobile phone conversation I overheard is too embarrassing to be be printed here. So I’ll stick to what people were reading. ...