Strong club player · Balanced
Play chess against Sharp Idris
Strong club player. Rarely blunders.
touch_appTry the opening against Sharp Idris: it answers with the moves from its own opening book. The full game, with the engine and chat, is in the app.
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You have White. Make your first move.
How Sharp Idris plays
Strong club player. Rarely blunders. Sharp Idris plays solid, natural chess: develops pieces, castles and takes chances when you leave them.
How strong it is
Sharp Idris is rated about 1600. 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.
- 6 ply
- Looks ahead
- 0.8% of moves
- Real mistakes
- −150 centipawns
- Worst normal move
- 12
- Candidate moves weighed
What it plays in the opening
Like a real club player, Sharp Idris picks opening moves from a human opening book. As White:
1.e460%
1.d425%
1.c45%
1.Nf35%
1.e33%
1.Nc32%
Against 1.e4:
1...e545%
1...c515%
1...d510%
1...e68%
1...c66%
1...Nc66%
1...d65%
1...Nf63%
1...g62%
What Idris says
Sharp Idris 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 Sharp Idris
- 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.