Hi. 😃
I played offence here in a 3 minutes blitz game against Stockfish chess engine — on Lichess.
For our information, the Level 6 isn't a tutorial bot — it's a calibrated menace.
I did 3-4 games prior this. Level 6 tends to play human‑like at times, and this was that one of those times.
It did 2 "under pressure" moves, at 24th and 31st banters. I took the 31st. When its horse swung to c5. I had.... a battering ram in position. And the horse...
(Horse. ♞) Let me just... vacate the e6 square. Yes, that should frighten the enemy's queen. Neigh me, neigh!
You can use your left and right arrows on your keyboard or use the mouse scroll to see the moves back and forth on the chessboard. But first, click the board.
Horse = knight. But because the piece doesn't resemble a knight to begin with, it's a horse. A well-behaved horse, I presume.
Here. ⬇️
(Horse. ♞) Oh hello, good sir. Might I interest you in some fine hay? It has colourful flavour. Mm mm, I say.
Sparring
It's good to train ourselves with the engine — especially when the engine is using Stockfish! 🥳🐟
Start by solving puzzles on Lichess ➡️ do engine sparrings ➡️ analyse our mistakes and blunders. Repeat. 🔁 Result ➡️ ❓ It's. Unknown.
Surely, we can always browse the studies on Lichess. There are plenty of great games from the Masters we can observe. 👀 But still, we need to implement our memory and knowledge in a real game. They're different worlds, theory and practice. Practice = the actual application against an opponent (and the clock). A match with a chess engine is a good start.
For those who are newly interested in chess, you should start from Level 1. 👍
There's no Level 0 and below. Level -3? Blimey, the... pieces... they move on their own. I won! Brilliant level, that. We should start a title:
Level -3 Champion 2026 👑🏆
Level 7 is like sparring a stoic Master who hasn't smiled since 1990, and will not fall for your "Dancing Queen" plank-spasm.
Level 8, the maximum level, is the full-blown Stockfish. 2900+ Elo, utterly inhumane. ☠️ Chilling. Chilling = frightening. Well, if we play with it, of course.
This is how we play against the engine on Lichess:
And we set the game:
Let the game begin!
Elo
Named after Arpad Emmerich Elo, a Hungarian-American physics professor and chess enthusiast who devised the system for rating player strength. It's just Elo, like Professor Elo's method.
Pronounced "EE-loh", not "ello" or "el-oh".
Original US Chess Federation (USCF) adopted it in the 1960s. ➡️ FIDE (Fédération Internationale des Échecs) followed soon after (around 1970). 1971, the first official FIDE Elo list was published — with Bobby Fischer right at the top. 🏆
Elo is still used by FIDE. But Lichess uses Glicko-2 rating system — developed by Professor Mark E. Glickman.
Thanks for visiting! 👋🙋♂️
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