SO GLAD SOMEONE IS TALKING ABOUT THIS. I will never forget getting my ass beat on a Delta flight a few years ago. When they sent me a survey asking about my flight, I sent them an essay about how BS their chess bot was
I couldn’t win at first but thankfully I had a set of vibrating beads in my carry on, quick trip to the bathroom and back and the chess spoke for itself
Delta is probably an old Chess engine, those had a hard time dumbing themselves down compared to the new ones, they brute forced the best move by calculating material loses, so they don't really "understand" the game pretty well, but they are really hard to beat, because usually "easy" just meant the depth they analyze for is lower, but they don't make one move blunders, ever. and if there is a winning combination they are going to find it. Li and all these other chess bots play smarter chess, but purposefully make mistakes to give you can get an advantage. Delta actually WANTS to win.
It would be funny if they programmed it to stop the search depth based on a timer set according to the difficulty level, but it was written in 1993 & kept getting better w/ the hardware
Ehh, Delta is clearly programmed to follow certain lines of and moves when presented with the opportunity. A human should be able to fake it out and dumpster it.
I flew on Delta a few weeks ago. I like chess, and was bored, and decided to play it. That computer crushed me every time. I tried at least a dozen times. And it destroyed me, over and over. I got so frustrated, and decided to watch a movie instead.
My last published USCF rating was about 2000. I found after a while that the Delta program did not like closed positions. I played the Catalan and it opted for the closed variation. If I could keep the pieces on the board I had pretty good success maybe 50%. I lost every game with Black. Overall I'd estimate I was winning 1 in 4 or 5.
This makes me think it's probably just low depth Stockfish. Depth limited SF doesn't need much search at all to reliably find tactics, but struggles in quiet and closed positions. When the position is closed the important moves disappear over the search horizon and the engine can't see far enough to make progress. Often this will cause it to shuffle pieces while the human slowly improves their position. Back when engines were weaker this was a viable anti-computer strategy. There's a crazy game back in 2008 when Nakamura closed up the position against Rybka, exchange sacked both rooks and won.
@@Jefferson-ly5qecould be anything. The main programms all have deep learning what makes them better in closed possitions. But ofc you can limit the engine. Id guess there are almost 1000 engines able to play on this level. But if id had to guess u could be right could be some open source dumed down. Maybe stockfish or leela
@@grnarsch5287 doubt it's Leela, Leela tends to play pretty decent positional chess even at low depth. Also hasn't been around that long. A more traditional brute force engine makes more sense.
@@Jefferson-ly5qeIt's still viable against weaker or older computers. It also sometimes helps to play something offbeat, to get it out of its opening book of sharp lines where most places you can leave theory hand the computer an easy tactic. I struggled to beat the final boss of the Game Boy Advance game Virtual Kasparov until I decided to try Alekhine's Defence, and I had particular success with the admittedly silly Brooklyn Variation (1.e4 Nf6 2.e5 Ng8?!). Yes it's definitely a worse position for Black than when the game started, but not by that much -- White has some work to do to solidify the advantage -- and more importantly, it kept my game boy advance from playing 15 moves of Ruy Lopez theory against me. (Similarly, when I have white, it knows a bunch of Sicilian theory... but if I play 1.b4 I get a relatively easy game.)
@@8azyadwystanvalerian406 united also suffocates dogs and makes me fly across the globe just to get deported upon arrival, not telling me I needed a visa
Dont open that pandora's box: Headlines read- 8 Chess GMs perish in fiery inferno, autopilot found not to be flying the plane due to running chess engine.
Meanwhile, the pilots are frantically wondering why every bit of compute power on the aircraft is being sucked down by a seatback entertainment unit in business class
@@jagi7976 Empirically false. I'm not even a fan of his, but he's one of a handful of players to ever cross the 2800 barrier, is currently over the 2800, has consistently been a top ten player for over a decade.
@@robertreid2931 big fat whoosh dude. "Fine" is slang for attractive. You're literally arguing that you think hikaru is hot and you don't even realize it lmao.
I got absolutely dunked on by this chess bot on my last flight and thought I was just bad. Turns out I'm still bad but also the bot was just insane, neat video!
I had a similar story with the Goering Gambit. It would just blunder mate fairly early into the main line. I was simultaneously amused and disappointed how easy it was.
This makes me think of Assassin's Creed 3. In it you can play 9 Man's Morris, and need to beat some people for an achievement. My younger brother was doing great at it until he came to his last opponent. He couldn't beat him, no matter how hard he tried. So I tried, and failed. Eventually we looked online for expert bots, and they all lost. We still whisper in fear of that random npc.
It was a couple years ago but I beat all the difficulties they offered on Delta as a roughly 1600 rated player at the time, 1800 now. The computer always played a suboptimal line against the vienna gambit, leading to a bunch of games where I just slowly suffocated it.
I am around 2050 elo irl, and I got my ass kicked by it. Granted though, it was probably because I wasn't expecting to actually play a decent ai on an airplane.
They must’ve gotten tired of people complaining that the bot was too weak. I used to get bored smoking the hard bot without even trying; it wouldn’t even be fun. I guess they made it stronger and then some!
As someone else said, one way some chess engines are limited is in "think time." As in, it has so many seconds to make a move. Harder modes just let it "think" longer. Newer hardware means means harder to beat.
Airplane inflight engines change in strength when there is a hardware update. I'm 2100 on LiChess and I found Kasparov's engine for his inflight game at the highest level used to be trivial to beat (I literally never lost a game) but when they updated the hardware, as often happens with engines (which increase by 75 Elo points every time hardware speed is doubled, or if you double the time the engine is allowed to think) the Kasparov engine got harder to beat. Since Delta I think has a pretty modern fleet, I would not be surprised if their inflight entertainment hardware is a pretty fast computer. Subscribed!
Let's say the game give easy bot 1 sec think time, it would be really dumb in 20 years old hardware, maybe even a smart untrained kid might win. With modern hardware? it would be a real menace.
I believe around 80% of the In flight entertainment systems are made by Panasonic Avionics. Delta airlines is one airlines that used Panasonic avionics. However, Chess along with many of the other games are made by a third party.
@@antagonist4823You don't need a good computer to run a chess engine that can beat any human, no. But a chess engine designed to play with restrictions which keep it at a human-beatable level, that's suddenly seeing much further and deeper due to being on better hardware, may in fact be much stronger than intended. The same chess engine on NES chessmaster, which it being restricted to 5s per move on NES hardware even I could beat, you run that same code with that same time limit but with the clock speed of a 2024 computer and it probably trounces me.
Okay I thought I was insane. I am not good at chess but I can beat easy bots on most platforms. This thing absolutely smoked me on my international flight and I thought I was just genuinely horrible at the game lmfao.
Nothing will be more funny to me than this matchup, at one end of the board, a titan of chess, Grand Master Hikaru, looms large with a mind-boggling ELO rating of 2820. On the other, side Delta (easy)
My sister works for Delta and the last flight I took it was a different bot and the easy mode was laughably easy. I asked her if people complained that the old bot was too hard and they changed it and she just laughed at me. "I doubt anyone complained Sirnacane. Plus we have better things to work on." I just sent her this. I'm not alone sis.
The thing about computers is it's hard to teach them to actually play badly without just making them play moves at random sometimes. The alternative is to just limit how much they get to think, but even looking like 4 ply ahead (two moves for each side) Stockfish probably beats any human under 1600 rating pretty reliably. And if they based it on a timer, and configured that for computers that were put in airplanes 10+ years ago, before delta recently upgraded their fleet, that could easily be 500 elo points improvement from the better hardware
@@justenoughrandomness8989 seems like the testers probably just weren't good enough at chess to know how hard it truly is and they probably limited the computer's search depth down to like 2 moves and just expected that to be way easier than it actually is
Hahahah I am so glad I found this video. I too have been wrecked "easy" Delta bot. I am not a particularly strong player, but knew it had to be more than just altitude resulting in such an extreme mismatch.
Honestly it makes sense to have it be crazy difficult but be called easy for a flight. Makes you play it more and spend more time occupied and less time paying attention to your 10 hr flight
I couldn't sleep on my flight back from Greece this summer, so I played this damned delta chess game delirious from exhaustion like 20 times in a row increasingly annoyed I was getting stomped by the "easy" setting. Glad this videos vindicated me by proving I wouldve lost even if well rested.
Glad someone is talking about this, can't remember if it was Delta flight or another airline but one chess game had 3 difficulties, I remember starting on easy and it kept whopping me and then tried medium and beat it easily. Only then to go back to easy and get whooped again. Also the Texas Hold em game has fun feature where if you win, it starts a new game but you get to keep all the chips. So it was starting all the new players at 300 chips while I had over 15k hahaha
This must be new because I've flown several times for work but haven't traveled since May of this year. Most often I had no problem at all destroying the bots. I am a 1100 Blitz, 1000 rapid player so this surprises me a lot.
Glad to know it wasn't just me. Finished the book I was reading and decided I'd poke around on the entertainment. Played maybe 4-5 games and got absolutely destroyed every time.
This almost makes me want to take a Delta flight. I was just on an Aer Lingus transatlantic, and their chess bot on “hard” was garbage. I’m not good in the first place, was hella drunk and blundering my ass off, but always managed to rally; its endgame was just so godawful that I could always swindle at least a draw.
It appears the name "easy" was given assuming GM magnus (or GM hikaru) would make this video. Travellers not named "GM magnus" or "GM hikaru" are supposed to watch sitcoms. But you happened. You're the glitch in the matrix.
I just flew Delta last week and beat the hardest AI twice out of like 10 games. I played fast and traded everything pretty quickly. Maybe there's different versions of the bot on Delta but i really didn't have as much trouble with it. I've also beat it in the past like a year ago on another flight.
I’m so glad I saw this video. I swear Iost my mind during a flight. I thought maybe they had the difficulties reversed, but I got wrecked on every level.
i’m so glad i found this video, because it has been SO frustrating playing that bot! just like everyone else, even on easy mode, i can’t come close win!!!
Finally this is getting some attention. Every delta flight I've tried to beat this bot with no success. I'm no master, but as a 1600 rated player, I feel immense shame as my girlfriend watches me lose every single game to the "easy" bot
I had tried medium on my flight, lost the first time and managed to get the win BARELY on my second. I hadn't played chess seriously up until that moment since I was at primary school.
Wow, I would have loved that thing. The last flights (european, asian airlines) had (the one? idk how that ecosystem works) bad chess game, where easy to hard was the same difficulty, just with sleep functions added for the "difficult" versions. They were deterministic and always played the same moves given the same sequence. Really easy to beat for me (decent club player).
I believe I was able to draw it after a few attempts, the opening I played gave me a substantial advantage going into the middle game, and after a couple tries was able to get into a pretty easily drawn ending. This was back in 2022, but i still have the game saved. I was around 2100 lichess rating
I’m sure the programmer that made this is laughing his ass off right now
Pretty good for something running out of a headrest
“Oh, make sure the bot has multiple difficulties”
“Yeah sure…”
I would bet money they have no idea. Someone dragged and dropped some stuff. GitHub chess bot we have at home meme.
Well now I feel better about struggling with this game on my last flight. 😂
It's all a ruse to get you to purchase more drinks on the flight.
SO GLAD SOMEONE IS TALKING ABOUT THIS. I will never forget getting my ass beat on a Delta flight a few years ago.
When they sent me a survey asking about my flight, I sent them an essay about how BS their chess bot was
Hahaha that's a hilarious response to a basic survey. I would totally do the same.
They probably read that survey and increased its elo rating by 300 points to spite you
Every time someone complains about the chess bot, its rating goes up by 50 points.
@@LeTtRrZever growing being, this video alone has given it tons of power
wait ass beat or ass beads 😂😂
I couldn’t win at first but thankfully I had a set of vibrating beads in my carry on, quick trip to the bathroom and back and the chess spoke for itself
😂
People will not let this die
The Niemann gambit
@@DashSpiderJumpscares You gotta keep the beads charged at all times. Why would you let them die?
lmfao
i think delta expected only people like magnus carlsen to aboard their flight and willingly play chess.
Okay
Watch them release Delta (medium) and Delta (hard) next
Delta (hard) steals your soul along with beating you in a chess match
Delta (medium) will just be Stockfish
@@shmslkel6224it sends you to the shadow realm
Delta(hard) will be ChatGPT, making up its own rules to win
Delta (hard) beats you in chess then beats you in real life
Delta is probably an old Chess engine, those had a hard time dumbing themselves down compared to the new ones, they brute forced the best move by calculating material loses, so they don't really "understand" the game pretty well, but they are really hard to beat, because usually "easy" just meant the depth they analyze for is lower, but they don't make one move blunders, ever. and if there is a winning combination they are going to find it. Li and all these other chess bots play smarter chess, but purposefully make mistakes to give you can get an advantage. Delta actually WANTS to win.
Suddenly imagined Delta looking like that sweaty among us speedrunner meme
It would be funny if they programmed it to stop the search depth based on a timer set according to the difficulty level, but it was written in 1993 & kept getting better w/ the hardware
Ehh, Delta is clearly programmed to follow certain lines of and moves when presented with the opportunity. A human should be able to fake it out and dumpster it.
In other words…. Back in my days those were the easy bots. 👴🏻
Imagine my surprise when I boarded a 9-hour flight and got my ass kicked by an airplane seat
I'm taking this out of context
@@OutbackCatgirl 666 likes too.
Rise of the machines.
no
I'm 1750, got destroyed multiple times. I had one game that felt fairly even going into endgame but I got ground out
Is there a hard difficulty for this bot? I missed him saying it in the video
@@Aguafy no, there are no difficulties. You're just vs "the CPU"
@@TrombonePirate that’s brutal 😂😂
My 1500 self coming into this video thinking I'd have an easy time on this bot 🤯
Omg
I flew on Delta a few weeks ago. I like chess, and was bored, and decided to play it. That computer crushed me every time. I tried at least a dozen times. And it destroyed me, over and over. I got so frustrated, and decided to watch a movie instead.
can confirm and feeling very vindicated
The delta experience
At least you didn't punch the monitor, it would have hit the passenger in front of you.
Ok now i want to see an actual gm fight this thing lol
Pretty sure GothamChess already did a video on this
Bro thinks he's hikaru 💀
@@kylebroflovski6382 That wasn't deltas bot I believe
@@rawtrout007 When did they say anything like that...?
If 2000 ELO players barely stand a chance on “easy” mode, then “hard” mode should be a worthy opponent for Stockfish
Hard would just be stockfish
Imagine everyone running hard mods on every seat, overloading the plane and crashing it
@@aethernets9442 the next bond villain
My last published USCF rating was about 2000. I found after a while that the Delta program did not like closed positions. I played the Catalan and it opted for the closed variation. If I could keep the pieces on the board I had pretty good success maybe 50%. I lost every game with Black. Overall I'd estimate I was winning 1 in 4 or 5.
This makes me think it's probably just low depth Stockfish. Depth limited SF doesn't need much search at all to reliably find tactics, but struggles in quiet and closed positions. When the position is closed the important moves disappear over the search horizon and the engine can't see far enough to make progress. Often this will cause it to shuffle pieces while the human slowly improves their position.
Back when engines were weaker this was a viable anti-computer strategy. There's a crazy game back in 2008 when Nakamura closed up the position against Rybka, exchange sacked both rooks and won.
@@Jefferson-ly5qecould be anything. The main programms all have deep learning what makes them better in closed possitions. But ofc you can limit the engine. Id guess there are almost 1000 engines able to play on this level. But if id had to guess u could be right could be some open source dumed down. Maybe stockfish or leela
@@grnarsch5287 doubt it's Leela, Leela tends to play pretty decent positional chess even at low depth. Also hasn't been around that long. A more traditional brute force engine makes more sense.
If I remember correctly, Hikaru beat an older version of Stockfish with a similar strategy.
@@Jefferson-ly5qeIt's still viable against weaker or older computers. It also sometimes helps to play something offbeat, to get it out of its opening book of sharp lines where most places you can leave theory hand the computer an easy tactic. I struggled to beat the final boss of the Game Boy Advance game Virtual Kasparov until I decided to try Alekhine's Defence, and I had particular success with the admittedly silly Brooklyn Variation (1.e4 Nf6 2.e5 Ng8?!). Yes it's definitely a worse position for Black than when the game started, but not by that much -- White has some work to do to solidify the advantage -- and more importantly, it kept my game boy advance from playing 15 moves of Ruy Lopez theory against me. (Similarly, when I have white, it knows a bunch of Sicilian theory... but if I play 1.b4 I get a relatively easy game.)
Let's pack people in a confined area and then give them a chess bot they can never beat.
Also, en passant is not allowed.
I hear that first class bot is just Martin so that rich people can feel good about themselves. It's a pay to win thing.
Maybe this explains the poor in-flight food and slow boarding times. Delta has put too many resources into its chess bot.
ehhh their food is alright
after all, nothing is worse than united
The food is amazing what are you talking about
And who cares about boarding times?
@@Nub_or_something_idk Idk I'm pretty sure united breaking guitars is worse
@@8azyadwystanvalerian406 united also suffocates dogs and makes me fly across the globe just to get deported upon arrival, not telling me I needed a visa
I flew to Nigeria and had jollof rice on the plane. It was actually way better than I expected it for an airplane version of an ethnic food.
The airline should fly a bunch of top players to some tournament as a promotional event. That will really be the test of their engine.
Fantastic idea
Dont open that pandora's box:
Headlines read- 8 Chess GMs perish in fiery inferno, autopilot found not to be flying the plane due to running chess engine.
Meanwhile, the pilots are frantically wondering why every bit of compute power on the aircraft is being sucked down by a seatback entertainment unit in business class
A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kickboxing.
The computer will remember that.
When the easy mode is competitive with World #2, and one of the finest players to sit at a chess board, I'd hate to see medium mode.
I mean he is pretty cute but I wouldn’t say one of the finest
@@jagi7976 Empirically false. I'm not even a fan of his, but he's one of a handful of players to ever cross the 2800 barrier, is currently over the 2800, has consistently been a top ten player for over a decade.
@@robertreid2931jagi is saying hikaru isn’t that pretty :/
@@silly_sheep09 That makes his or her comment even worse.
@@robertreid2931 big fat whoosh dude. "Fine" is slang for attractive. You're literally arguing that you think hikaru is hot and you don't even realize it lmao.
The (easy) is actually Delta rating YOU before the match
you were making content and i was watching schitts creek next to you wow
This is why chess nerds never get the girl...
@@dixonarc69this is his girl 💀💀💀
I remembered being on Delta last year...Wow, no wonder I couldn't win. That's not an easy rating for most players..
"For most players" is quite the understatement. It could literally mop the floor with 99.999% of chess players.
“martin trades a rook for a bishop to relieve pressure” ☠️
I got absolutely dunked on by this chess bot on my last flight and thought I was just bad. Turns out I'm still bad but also the bot was just insane, neat video!
I played this on a five hour flight once. It has a huge oversight in the fried liver. Took maybe 10 games to find it but after that I won like 8 times
same thing with the vienna gambit, it was just losing after 5 moves every game and I can convert that usually.
I had a similar story with the Goering Gambit. It would just blunder mate fairly early into the main line. I was simultaneously amused and disappointed how easy it was.
Hahaha I did the same thing with fried liver. It goes into a really bad line for black
As a non chess afficionado, this sounds schizophrenic
Have you tried the tennison gambit nuclear ICBM version
This makes me think of Assassin's Creed 3. In it you can play 9 Man's Morris, and need to beat some people for an achievement. My younger brother was doing great at it until he came to his last opponent. He couldn't beat him, no matter how hard he tried. So I tried, and failed. Eventually we looked online for expert bots, and they all lost. We still whisper in fear of that random npc.
If you win, you get to fly the plane.
”The Magnus we have at home” THE SHADE 😂🤣😂
I love how people Universally agree that Delta's AI is no slouch.
Apparently, everyone who flew Delta, got destroyed/demolished by this chess bot.
Good to know Delta airlines is creating strategic warlords in the form of chess AI
I might fly with Delta next year and I'm about 2100 online. I'll see what I can do
report back when you do!
I'm so glad to see this video. I repeatedly got crushed by the Delta Bot on easy, and thought it was just me
Ah, so it took up most of your time on the flight then?
Working as intended.
It was a couple years ago but I beat all the difficulties they offered on Delta as a roughly 1600 rated player at the time, 1800 now. The computer always played a suboptimal line against the vienna gambit, leading to a bunch of games where I just slowly suffocated it.
I am around 2050 elo irl, and I got my ass kicked by it.
Granted though, it was probably because I wasn't expecting to actually play a decent ai on an airplane.
They must’ve gotten tired of people complaining that the bot was too weak. I used to get bored smoking the hard bot without even trying; it wouldn’t even be fun. I guess they made it stronger and then some!
As someone else said, one way some chess engines are limited is in "think time." As in, it has so many seconds to make a move. Harder modes just let it "think" longer. Newer hardware means means harder to beat.
Airplane inflight engines change in strength when there is a hardware update. I'm 2100 on LiChess and I found Kasparov's engine for his inflight game at the highest level used to be trivial to beat (I literally never lost a game) but when they updated the hardware, as often happens with engines (which increase by 75 Elo points every time hardware speed is doubled, or if you double the time the engine is allowed to think) the Kasparov engine got harder to beat. Since Delta I think has a pretty modern fleet, I would not be surprised if their inflight entertainment hardware is a pretty fast computer. Subscribed!
You don’t really need a good cpu to run chess engines.
@@antagonist4823 Some old game chess engine use time to determine depth, modern system with same engine would result in some serious depth change.
Let's say the game give easy bot 1 sec think time, it would be really dumb in 20 years old hardware, maybe even a smart untrained kid might win.
With modern hardware? it would be a real menace.
I believe around 80% of the In flight entertainment systems are made by Panasonic Avionics. Delta airlines is one airlines that used Panasonic avionics. However, Chess along with many of the other games are made by a third party.
@@antagonist4823You don't need a good computer to run a chess engine that can beat any human, no. But a chess engine designed to play with restrictions which keep it at a human-beatable level, that's suddenly seeing much further and deeper due to being on better hardware, may in fact be much stronger than intended.
The same chess engine on NES chessmaster, which it being restricted to 5s per move on NES hardware even I could beat, you run that same code with that same time limit but with the clock speed of a 2024 computer and it probably trounces me.
This is great. I was shocked at how tough the "easy" level was. Now I know why!
Omg yes that thing is ridiculous, I'm 1700 and easy mode kicks my ass every single time
I was recently on a flight and thought I was at least competent at chess but this thing smashed me so hard in 2 games I just went to sleep
Okay I thought I was insane. I am not good at chess but I can beat easy bots on most platforms. This thing absolutely smoked me on my international flight and I thought I was just genuinely horrible at the game lmfao.
from evaluation its an easy Bot (GM's version). Made it right on the line between IM and GM
Like a slightly out-of-shape Levy Rozman.
@@TheBcoolGuyLevy is between FM and IM, not between IM and GM. Even at his best, he was only just an IM.
So if it's between IM and GM it's an HM?
6:52 Wow, Black didn't capture en passant. I see how it is.
holy hell
@@kadabrium new response just dropped
Since Da Vinci's Aerospace Postulate in 1381, en passant has been illegal above 20,000 feet.
YES. THIS THING IS SO RUTHLESS. I was even fighting it against my phone computer cause it was absurd
Nothing will be more funny to me than this matchup, at one end of the board, a titan of chess, Grand Master Hikaru, looms large with a mind-boggling ELO rating of 2820. On the other, side Delta (easy)
My sister works for Delta and the last flight I took it was a different bot and the easy mode was laughably easy. I asked her if people complained that the old bot was too hard and they changed it and she just laughed at me. "I doubt anyone complained Sirnacane. Plus we have better things to work on."
I just sent her this. I'm not alone sis.
what were they thinking making THIS the "easy" option, was it made with garbage hardware or were the testers gms or what?
The thing about computers is it's hard to teach them to actually play badly without just making them play moves at random sometimes. The alternative is to just limit how much they get to think, but even looking like 4 ply ahead (two moves for each side) Stockfish probably beats any human under 1600 rating pretty reliably. And if they based it on a timer, and configured that for computers that were put in airplanes 10+ years ago, before delta recently upgraded their fleet, that could easily be 500 elo points improvement from the better hardware
@@psymar so the explanation is that it was made with garbage hardware?
@@justenoughrandomness8989 seems like the testers probably just weren't good enough at chess to know how hard it truly is and they probably limited the computer's search depth down to like 2 moves and just expected that to be way easier than it actually is
@@lily91556 also makes sense
I’ve actually used two screens on a flight to pit the easy bot against the hard one. Turns out, there isn’t actually a difference between them
I do remember getting destroyed by some easy mode chess AI on a flight... Maybe this was it.
Hahahah I am so glad I found this video. I too have been wrecked "easy" Delta bot. I am not a particularly strong player, but knew it had to be more than just altitude resulting in such an extreme mismatch.
Dude I’m so glad to see this. I got wrecked every time on two 9-hour flights and only had one close game. The rest I got mated
Honestly it makes sense to have it be crazy difficult but be called easy for a flight. Makes you play it more and spend more time occupied and less time paying attention to your 10 hr flight
I couldn't sleep on my flight back from Greece this summer, so I played this damned delta chess game delirious from exhaustion like 20 times in a row increasingly annoyed I was getting stomped by the "easy" setting.
Glad this videos vindicated me by proving I wouldve lost even if well rested.
Delta medium is just gonna be stockfish at a 3200 rating.
this is a sick video ngl. just straight to the point. kinda like an mspainexplained video
Glad someone is talking about this, can't remember if it was Delta flight or another airline but one chess game had 3 difficulties, I remember starting on easy and it kept whopping me and then tried medium and beat it easily. Only then to go back to easy and get whooped again. Also the Texas Hold em game has fun feature where if you win, it starts a new game but you get to keep all the chips. So it was starting all the new players at 300 chips while I had over 15k hahaha
This must be new because I've flown several times for work but haven't traveled since May of this year. Most often I had no problem at all destroying the bots. I am a 1100 Blitz, 1000 rapid player so this surprises me a lot.
Glad to know it wasn't just me. Finished the book I was reading and decided I'd poke around on the entertainment. Played maybe 4-5 games and got absolutely destroyed every time.
This almost makes me want to take a Delta flight. I was just on an Aer Lingus transatlantic, and their chess bot on “hard” was garbage.
I’m not good in the first place, was hella drunk and blundering my ass off, but always managed to rally; its endgame was just so godawful that I could always swindle at least a draw.
Easy❌
Easy for computers✅
Edit: imo there should be more options in airline chess for ppl with different elo
It appears the name "easy" was given assuming GM magnus (or GM hikaru) would make this video. Travellers not named "GM magnus" or "GM hikaru" are supposed to watch sitcoms. But you happened. You're the glitch in the matrix.
Oh my god I thought I was just really bad. Thank god I'm not the only one who went through this torture
Praise the algorithm for showing me this, for I too am a victim of the Delta IFE chess game.
I'm glad someone tried this because this bot humiliated me and it absolutely wrecked my confidence
2150 won 3 games in 10. It's brutal
If you play well enough you'll notice that the plane starts slowing down as engine power is diverted to the AI core.
I have a vendetta against this machine. It plays weird lines, and accepts gambits that it shouldnt
I just flew Delta last week and beat the hardest AI twice out of like 10 games. I played fast and traded everything pretty quickly. Maybe there's different versions of the bot on Delta but i really didn't have as much trouble with it. I've also beat it in the past like a year ago on another flight.
Delta (easy) sounds like a taunt at this point. "I was merely going easy on you. Now witness the full capabilities of my unleashed power."
I'm so glad it wasn't just me being bad at chess. I mean, I am bad at chess, but now I have an excuse for my flights.
You should try the NES battle chess AI. For a game from the 80s it feels really strong.
I’m so glad I saw this video. I swear Iost my mind during a flight. I thought maybe they had the difficulties reversed, but I got wrecked on every level.
YES!!! I noticed this and was incredulous at how difficult it was
Super engaging video. Great work!
This is crazy. I also just went to Italy on Delta and lost to this bot.
I remember a levy video about him Getting beaten by the same bot
This is a hilarious video and I feel a lot better about two summers of losing to this bot!
Thank you for the video. No wonder I was constantly getting crushed on Easy
i’m so glad i found this video, because it has been SO frustrating playing that bot! just like everyone else, even on easy mode, i can’t come close win!!!
The worst part? It can fart, cry or snore at you as you play.
Brutal.
Select Difficulty: Grand Master, Deep Blue, Alan Turing
Dude I'm rated 2000 and i was pissed i couldn't beat it, thank God i saw this video. I played it like 8 times
6:08 I don't think it's called draw by stalemate.
I think it's called draw by 50 move rule
Yeah it’s draw by 50 move rule
5:32 False!
LMAO
Got em
there's no such thing as a "50-move-stalemate". Stalemate is a draw but an asymmetrical situation (not in check but no moves for one side).
Dude Fr. I was flying home on their plane, and was blown away by the strength. I’m glad it wasn’t just me 😂😂😂
dude more chess content this was really well presented !
good video, deserves more views, very interesting.
This is the kind of stuff that John Mulaney was warning us about
Finally this is getting some attention. Every delta flight I've tried to beat this bot with no success. I'm no master, but as a 1600 rated player, I feel immense shame as my girlfriend watches me lose every single game to the "easy" bot
I had tried medium on my flight, lost the first time and managed to get the win BARELY on my second. I hadn't played chess seriously up until that moment since I was at primary school.
feels like what it looks like whenever i try to configure Stockfish to play at its minimum available strength of 1350 glicko.
BLACKJACK on an AIRPLANE!?
IM FLYIN ACROSS THE WORLD TO FUEL MY GAMBLING ADDICTION!!!!!!!!!!1
ahahah i hope they don't nerf this thing. beating the delta bot should be a bucket list item on everyone's chess journey.
Literally me as a beginner got straight cooked causing me to not play chess for bout 2 years
Wow, I would have loved that thing. The last flights (european, asian airlines) had (the one? idk how that ecosystem works) bad chess game, where easy to hard was the same difficulty, just with sleep functions added for the "difficult" versions. They were deterministic and always played the same moves given the same sequence. Really easy to beat for me (decent club player).
Boeing has a chess bot that is missing a few pieces.
never in my life i've ever seen getting beat by a chess bot on a airplane nah I ain't playing that guy
I'm glad I'm not the only one
I believe I was able to draw it after a few attempts, the opening I played gave me a substantial advantage going into the middle game, and after a couple tries was able to get into a pretty easily drawn ending. This was back in 2022, but i still have the game saved. I was around 2100 lichess rating
Man, this makes me feel so much better. I couldn't win a single game against this damn thing