[FartyMcFarter]

The AI makes plenty of blunders (confirmed with Stockfish analysis), which makes sense in order to get a better estimate of the opponent's rating.

As I was playing I felt like I had a definite advantage, which I did as it turns out. But because I was playing a computer I kept second-guessing myself as I didn't yet know it was programmed to blunder. I then managed to resign in a drawn pawn endgame - I wonder if this was used as signal to estimate my rating.

It got my lichess rating right within 300 points after just one game.

[MereGurudev]

Thanks for sharing your experience! It's a very interesting point about how you adapt your play based on the preconception about how computers play. The AI isn't programmed to blunder per se, it's more that I have tried to emulate a human intuition & thinking process – which is prone to blunders. So it never intentionally makes a mistake to test you, or to even the game out, it just tries to emulate your level of play.

[FartyMcFarter]

Thanks for the info, this is a great project!