Lab
Bad Chess Engines
Legal moves, terrible principles. A small collection of chess bots that know the rules but optimize for the wrong thing.
This is a WORK IN PROGRESS :P
The idea
This is not an attempt to make a good chess engine. The goal is to make engines with personalities: bots that play legal chess, but follow deeply questionable principles. This idea is heavily inspired by (pretty much a complete copy of) a video by the legendary tom7.
Examples:
- a bot that prefers the edge of the board;
- a bot that gives check whenever possible;
- a bot that avoids captures out of politeness;
- a bot that makes moves according to some cursed graph-theoretic heuristic.