This, and block the meme subs explicitly.

Oh that’s nice, thanks, looks like if I can figure out how to submit a form from anki I’ll be home and dry…

I can feel some python coming on…

Yes, I’m confused about why engines play so badly in endgames.

If you start them off a piece down then that’s presumably a theoretically lost position, but they don’t just make random moves because it doesn’t matter…

What is it about the endgame that means that they suddenly start to favour the move that drags the game out the longest rather than the move that allows their opponent the biggest chance to screw up?

And actually, they often don’t even play the ‘drag it out longest’ move, they seem to just pick moves at random for no reason.

And that means that I can often beat stockfish in positions which I have no idea how to win against someone who hasn’t given up.

Maia does seem to fix this. She plays well in the endgame.

I wonder if it’s possible to layer the two things, so that if standard stockfish sees that all moves are equivalent, it can hand off to maia to choose which one to play rather than rolling dice?

Behold:

https://lichess.org/?user=maia9#friend

maia9 is a chess bot who plays in a human style. She keeps whacking me in positions where I can beat actual stockfish easily. Just what I wanted. Thank you iceman on reddit.

That’s a nice app! Free and open source, and now a permanent addition to my phone. Thank you!

I can’t tell you whether it solves my problem because it won’t let me set up a position where I know that standard stockfish runs away, but I played with it for half an hour and it doesn’t show that behaviour in the games I played.

Nice, thank you! Also kudos to lemmy in general for providing a useful answer before reddit’s r/chess did!! Maybe there is hope!