I thought it might be interesting to hear what kinds of games you guys play against the AI, and which personalities you're stuck on / have got to.

I've tried various ways of playing the chessmaster personalities, such as the tournaments, or playing rated games against each personality in increasing rank order, until I'd won more games than I'd lost against each guy.

But I found a far less frustrating way, for me, is to simply play each opponent until I beat them *once* and then progress to the next personality.

Playing this way, I've got as far as Marie (1675). But my record against her stands at 0-0-10, and it doesn't look like I'm going to beat her any time soon...
She always seems a couple of moves ahead of me, tactically.

I play 20-minute games at the mo.

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Originally posted by sholtom:
play each opponent until I beat them *once* and then progress to the next personality.

Used to do the same. But now I just check the "random" and "hidden" box. I think it's much better that way, because you can't exploit the same flaw, since you don't know who you play against. So you will just have to play good moves to win

I used to play 15min/game against Jessica or Roxy whom are about my strenght but I like Ebutaljib's (what a username!) idea to play randomly with "hidden" box! By the way are personalities pictures taken from Ubisoft employees?

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pictures taken from Ubisoft employees?

...and their relatives. See here.

No-one's going to care about this, but...

I finally took down Marie! After 15 defeats, I won the 16th game. She basically let me double her pawns a couple of times at the start, and never really recovered.

Mijin vs Marie

Funnily enough, I beat the next opponent (T.C. - 1701) on the first attempt.

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Originally posted by sholtom:
I thought it might be interesting to hear what kinds of games you guys play against the AI

i'm currently winning about 1/2 the games against eddie(949) which is much better than a few weeks ago when i was losing about 100%

i started with the 500 levels and quickly stomped them up until the 800's or so and then really got stuck at duke(921) so i kept playing until i could consistently win fairly quickly

i'm planning to just keep plodding along like this, jumping up 1 level when i get good enough to easily win at the current level. i only play chess about 2-3 hours/week and also read books and doing the mate-2 moves puzzles from polgars 5300 puzzle book