doesn’t make huge blunders? Is this a thing?
The novice bots make exploitable errors
Even the strongest bots have exploits , so I think the answer is no.
That said, it sounds like you’re looking for a bot that won’t make too many mistakes, but also won’t crush you. In that case I recommend using KataGo’s human-play features.
KataGo v1.15.x is released! There is a new model b18c384nbt-humanv0.bin.gz trained to predict human moves. You can configure the rank of human player to predict/imitate, or also set it to imitate historical pro play by year back to 1800.
Release notes are in v1.15.0 for the main docs on how to use the model, but actually download from v1.15.1 which has a bugfix. There are some pretty pictures in the release notes, check them out!
Depending on settings, you can get KataGo to attempt to play lik…
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