Casual club player · Balanced
Play chess against Club Regular Sam
Solid fundamentals, comfortable in the opening.
touch_appTry the opening against Club Regular Sam: it answers with the moves from its own opening book. The full game, with the engine and chat, is in the app.
How Club Regular Sam plays
Solid fundamentals, comfortable in the opening. Club Regular Sam plays solid, natural chess: develops pieces, castles and takes chances when you leave them.
How strong it is
Club Regular Sam is rated about 1000. Its strength comes from a model of how players at that rating actually err: how far they look ahead and how often they slip, not from a weakened engine.
- 3 ply
- Looks ahead
- 1.6% of moves
- Real mistakes
- −225 centipawns
- Worst normal move
- 19
- Candidate moves weighed
What it plays in the opening
Like a real club player, Club Regular Sam picks opening moves from a human opening book. As White:
Against 1.e4:
What Sam says
Club Regular Sam reacts to your moves while you play. A few of its lines:
“Good luck, have fun!”
“Let's play.”
“Nf3, nice move.”
“Ooh, Nf3. Good one.”
“Hmm, Nf3. I'll take that.”
How to beat Club Regular Sam
- 1Develop all your pieces before attacking.
- 2Do a blunder check before every move: what can they capture?
- 3Trade into an endgame when you're ahead.