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 before this particular game. 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!
Online Tournament
Though it is online — just like attending a real life, on-board tournament — prepare yourself mentally and physically so you won't blame the opponent, the air, the mouse, the ISP, that rodent you didn't even know existed, everything or everyone else but yourself... too much. ☠️ Right? You saw those peculiar rages AND experienced it yourself. Well, not just chess, any online tournament. Because we were behind the network, not actually in front of our opponent.
For instance,
BLOODY CHEATER! If only my coffee were HOT! @x#*X%!
(Slamming the table. Grunting like a boar. Tearing singlet.)
⬆️ While the opponent has GM title in their nickname.
Imagine if we did it in field tennis, I mean in real life, actual field tennis:
(Opponent's smash was in. 🎾💥)
Oi you plonker, YOU PLONKING MELON! YOU DO NOT EXIST. (Doing wizardly hand gestures. Squinting hard.) BACK TO OBLIVION YOU NONEXISTENT MELON!
👀 👀 👀 (The crowd and the opponent going absolutely dead silent.)
👮 👮 (Escorted by people who escort these sort of people from tennis field.)
We should be calm, relaxed — consider ourselves a cold stone. We need to set aside the emotions momentarily. Being focused is quite essential. It can be trained. And that level of trained focus differentiates Masters and Melon Wizards. We may say to ourselves,
Would you mind awfully taking a seat over there, emotions?
It's not an absolute rule, but it's beneficial, depends on your goal. Is it:
- I want to bring everyone down. INCLUDING MYSELF. AND POSSIBLY GOT BANNED FROM THE PLATFORM. HAHAHA. Lingerie mode is activated. 👙🩱
- I want to improve myself through this tournament. 🍵🧐
By golly, option a is indeed... entertaining.
Leaving A Game
Still in the online world. You've seen this phenomenon. Because, once again, we're behind the network. Fortunately, this sort of behaviour, on Lichess particularly, will end up in account ban — if we're logged in. Indeed, pressing button has that peculiar disgrace, doesn't it?
Well again, back to our goal in this. But imagine, doing that in real life. Running around from table to table. Someone ought to tackle us like on a rugby field.
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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