I found it interesting to play against LeelaQueenOdds. My experiences:
I got absolutely crushed on 1+1 time controls (took me 50+ games to win one), but I’m competitive at 3+2 if I play seriously.
The model is really good at exploiting human blind spots and playing aggressively. I could feel it striking in my weak spots, but not being able to do much about it. (I now better acknowledge the existence of adversarial attacks for humans on a gut level.)
I found it really addictive to play against it: You know the trick that casinos use, where they make you feel like you “almost” won? This was that: I constantly felt like I could have won, if it wasn’t just for that one silly mistake—despite having lost the previous ten games to such “random mistakes”, too… I now better understand what it’s like to be a gambling addict.
Overall fascinating to play from a position that should be an easy win, but getting crushed by an opponent that Just Plays Better than I do.
[For context, I’m around 2100 in Lichess on short time controls (bullet/blitz). I also won against Stockfish 16 at rook odds on my first try—it’s really not optimized for this sort of thing.]
I found it interesting to play against LeelaQueenOdds. My experiences:
I got absolutely crushed on 1+1 time controls (took me 50+ games to win one), but I’m competitive at 3+2 if I play seriously.
The model is really good at exploiting human blind spots and playing aggressively. I could feel it striking in my weak spots, but not being able to do much about it. (I now better acknowledge the existence of adversarial attacks for humans on a gut level.)
I found it really addictive to play against it: You know the trick that casinos use, where they make you feel like you “almost” won? This was that: I constantly felt like I could have won, if it wasn’t just for that one silly mistake—despite having lost the previous ten games to such “random mistakes”, too… I now better understand what it’s like to be a gambling addict.
Overall fascinating to play from a position that should be an easy win, but getting crushed by an opponent that Just Plays Better than I do.
[For context, I’m around 2100 in Lichess on short time controls (bullet/blitz). I also won against Stockfish 16 at rook odds on my first try—it’s really not optimized for this sort of thing.]