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I came upon chess.com playing against computer mode. I found a resemblance of two professional chess players over there. Do they really resemble their gameplay, though? Does the AI mimic their past plays?

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    Nakamura played his bot a couple months ago: youtube.com/watch?v=mZ5yqDtkQXI I'd say from his comment "And it's playing my friggin' opening!" on game 2 that the bot probably indeed has a bit of his "personality" but I can't say for sure to which extent it goes. The bot also tried to flag him in the endgame, which Nakamura does a lot. Not sure if they kept it as-is when chess.com moved to their new bots UI though.
    – Pierre-Luc Pineault
    Nov 4, 2020 at 15:30

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I have spent some time playing the lower-rated bots, and can confirm they tend to have different "personalities". I'm not a strong enough player to explain exactly how they are different. However I have observed that some are more aggressive, and tend to gravitate towards particular openings depending on the color.

I know that Hikaru recently did a series of videos on youtube where he played against bots. When I saw the new bots, I had a feeling that it was for the purpose you describe.

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We don't know for sure. Chess.com is closed source so we will never know for sure. One thing I can tell you for sure, you're NOT playing the real Nakamura. It's nothing more than a tuned chess engine wrapped by smart marketing.

Why don't we take a look of PlayMagnus https://www.reddit.com/r/chess/comments/a5ws9t/question_about_playmagnus/?

The higher levels of the app actually makes some attempts to play like Magnus did at the various ages. It isn't nearly as good as I would like it to be (I was handicapped by an extreme shortage of development time and not having anything better than my MacBook available for tuning and testing), and I hope to find the time to do a better job some day, but at least it is true that analysis of Magnus' style, strength and opening choices through the years played some role in the development of these levels.

The lower levels, however, are pure fiction. We didn't even have any games played by Magnus at these ages. We made these levels with the aim that every chess player - even someone who has just learned the rules - should be able to find some beatable level. Magnus 5, the lowest level of all, plays completely random legal moves. It has nothing to do with any research of how Magnus or any other 5 year old plays chess.

So think of like paying chess.com for a new careful strong tuned chess AI. Sorry, no Nakamura here.

I don't know what exactly was tuned. My guess:

  • Playing strength
  • Thinking time
  • Static evaluation
  • Search algorithms
  • Piece square tables
  • Search depth etc
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They said about individual bot (strengths and weaknesses) but haven't disclosed about the bots, representing professional players.

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no, i think its just the strength of the computer is matched with the computers image like the hikaru nakamura computer. It will play at his strength level.

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    Thanks. I wonder whether chess.com team fed the AI and train the agent with Hikaru Nakamura's already played game. It would be awesome if they do something like this.
    – Red
    Nov 1, 2020 at 16:38
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    I'm pretty sure there's more than engine strength involved, as there are multiple personalities with the same listed strength. In order to believe this answer I'd need something better sourced than "I think".
    – D M
    Nov 1, 2020 at 18:24

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