Did Mittens get TRICKED?!

In this video, I try to get revenge against Mittens, an evil kitty chess bot. The game features a fascinating battle from a Ponizani Opening. Try it yourself: www.chess.com/...
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[@Michael.032]

1:02 "Let's see if she knows the theory". *She IS the theory*

[@theobirkholz]

Theory - Mittens is coded to play in a way that a human opponent will still find chances, but still maintain its advantage at all times.

[@matthewviramontes3131]

This might be true, because in the game that Hikaru drew it, it had a totally winning move and instead played something innocuous and drawing.

[@fabians7751]

That would make sense. I'm only holding myself against bots up to 1200 and Mittens took way too long to crush me considering it drew against a GM

[@defenastrator]

I think mittens objective is to maintain advantage while leaving as meny pieces on the board as it can. I've seen it repeatedly trap pieces & refuse to take.

[@Jzscrstsprstr]

Like a cat playing with a mouse it caught?

[@MacDaniboi]

This is correct, I am a very low level player and in the analysis after I noticed that whenever I made a mistake Mittens also made a mistake and never got a bigger than -2 lead until I blundered forced mate.

[@JimmyBoosterCrate]

Hikaru managed to draw it after being lost the whole game. It can mess up endgames. There is hope!

[@kadardew9694]

Keep in mind Hikaru is a literal GOD. but ye I think there’s hope

[@zachrabaznaz7687]

@@niranjanrajesh1058 Hikaru beat Magnus in all of 2022. Magnus never beat him once

[@firstviewer9167]

@@zachrabaznaz7687 magnus is world rapid world blitz and world champion in classical

[@zachrabaznaz7687]

@@firstviewer9167 yes, but Hikaru and Magnus are on THE SAME LEVEL. The same tier. They are not far apart.

[@firstviewer9167]

@@zachrabaznaz7687 how many world championship hikaru won??

[@robw9986]

7:06 "You're not a tiger, you're just a fish." I don't know if I ever saw Eric trash talking before. Mittens do bring it out of people.

[@alquest]

To his defence, he was reading the cats chat aloud. So he was being trashed talked to, instead of talking trash himself.

[@piercearora7681]

Accurate, and made me laugh so hard my gf looked at me funny.

[@coolcrazydude007]

A very strong fish...

[@runeercool1]

He have told Dina Belenkaya to jump in a river.

[@robw9986]

​@@runeercool1 So Mittens and Dina. Hmmmmm.

[@ryuk5673]

25:28 I died when you said "lets see how long I can survive" and then mittens proceeds to end your suffering immediately 😂

[@Juasml]

He didn't even try to survive. He sacrificed the rooks to prevent mate on a1 and then left the king on a1 by pushing a pawn instead of moving closer to the center. It was mate in 2.

[@dansrod5952]

He ended his own suffering when he neglected moving his king

[@mburg33]

7:05 “You’re not a tiger, you’re just a fish, a very powerful fish.” 4:56 “I feel it’s confusing me with poetry, I have to stay focused on the position.” 13:53 “Maybe it’s just toying with me, maybe it’s like treating me as a cat toy…and I’m just like getting pushed around by it’s paws.”

[@Brejdu]

Quotes for the day

[@matthewsocoollike]

Eric: “I’m not gonna let the trash talk get to me I’m just going to ignore it” Also Eric: reads every message from mittens and responds hastily

[@Stolkmen]

Yes please, more mittens content. I love watching these matches :D

[@TimoNaaro]

Me too

[@OCPARKWAY]

Excellent games..Agreed

[@colegieseking5136]

I didn’t come here looking to fall in love with the Mittens content, but sometimes love finds you.

[@danieljosephgarcia]

Eric: “I’m not going to look at the psychological meow talk” *4 minutes later* E: “what is it saying?”

[@Luca.Rubinato]

"I feel like it's just confusing me with poetry" cracked me up. Man, you're the best!

[@erlendfriestad9343]

Pawetry it is

[@johng3348]

mittens makes it close.. so anybody playing against her feel like they had her.. but loses in the end, that's what is more frustrating. Whereas just getting crushed wouldn't make most people wanna keep playing, that's the trick.

[@20the20]

what are you talking about lol she definitely does not make it close

[@johng3348]

@@20the20 I am not very good at chess yet i felt like i was better at some points in our games and kept playing her until i saw titled players playing her and getting beat

[@mysticalmagic9259]

@@20the20 That's exactly what she does. There are times where she does not press the advantage and intentionally plays a suboptimal move.

[@areedkhalid6549]

Yeah exactly

[@juanlloveras5780]

It would make sense. Mittens is literally playing Cat and Mouse, toying with you as if you're a mouse already caught in its paws.

[@ammon6288]

Maybe the 1 is not Mittens’ ELO, but Mittens’ prediction of the outcome of the game

[@blueberryoatmeal4009]

It could also be: 1. Mittens' rank in the hierarchy of all things ever created 2. The percentage of Mittens' power that she uses in the game 3. Mittens' age (in months)

[@parzingtheasian]

it's not actually one, but won

[@aetherius6221]

It's actually (-1) which underflows to 3200

[@parzingtheasian]

@@aetherius6221 wouldn't that be 65535

[@aetherius6221]

@@parzingtheasian fair point haha

[@anturanggatantra2154]

Eric/Levy : 'That's such an engine moves' Mitten : "huh, that's such a human moves"

[@benoplustee]

My favorite kind of content: revenge on absolutely adorable kittens

[@raylopez99]

So you tortured animals when young? Noted...

[@benoplustee]

@@raylopez99 I thought that was a common theme among Rosen fans !!!!!!!

[@beilkster]

Eric says "that's an engine move" while playing an engine

[@gw6667]

Ironically the better move was to take a2

[@inciaradible7144]

Some fascinating games are coming out of this; I really like how dynamic Mittens plays. That checkmate was brutal.

[@pyrokinetikrlz]

It is great to see Eric trying to stay afloat versus a stronger opponent :D I find this content very educational for us low ELO legends

[@maxpro751]

It’s just calculations nothing special, low elo players just mindlessly make moves and that’s why they are low elo.

[@OfficialSuperMKG]

​@@maxpro751"Never before have I been so offended by something I 100% agree with" - Me, a low ELO chess player, 2023

[@daaaaaaanny]

@@maxpro751 Hey! It's not mindless moves, we just strategically forget about the fact our queen is hanging

[@benbencom]

While other people were watching Blade Runner, Eric was studying the Ponziani

[@davidescialpi6560]

I don't play chess anymore, but once in a while I watch Eric's videos to fall asleep lol

[@carlosgameros7869]

I found you because I was looking for Mittens content and... great job! Nice videos, keep posting Mittens and more of your games, maybe some live banter blitz with users?

[@caseyryan4002]

He streams on twitch where he sometimes plays viewers

[@TheInselaffen]

Mittens 5.5 - 0.5 Hikaru/Levy/Eric

[@shotx333]

Who else played Mittens?

[@bryanledfird731]

After watching hikaru struggle for a draw and me getting beaten into the dirt 8 games in a row, this is pretty cathartic. Demon cat.

[@BLAZe-love]

Hikaru made her exhausted

[@maloxi1472]

Cathartic how ? Eric lost this game too

[@sollertia_]

@@maloxi1472 ppl don't watch before commenting

[@dontuserachelslurs]

@@sollertia_ even if Eric was just dragged the whole game it can be cathartic to see people way better than you struggle with the same thing that you struggle with.

[@Yute01]

@@BLAZe-loveYo 😭

[@elihuessien-thompson6519]

I'd love more mittens content please. I learned so much just watching this battle

[@pauls5745]

Mittens purposely lets you feel like you tricked it, but it already found the win 16 moves down the road

[@evreatic3438]

Yes, more content! Don't give up, Eric, you can beat Mittens!

[@Krell54]

I almost beat Mittens with a Stafford gambit, but suddenly didn’t.

[@davethebrave.]

the mittens will be really funny if he doesn't make fun of them

[@blooper6801]

I wanna see a "I outwitted mittens with a stafford gambit"

[@МихаилАшихмин]

We need to summon Schrantz for dealing with this.)

[@irrelevant_noob]

13:53 i have always had the feeling that mittens likes to toy with its prey. :-)

[@qzaq6186]

Imagine Mittens passive use 0 elo, but sometimes using 1 for good move

[@aetherius6221]

Mittens actually has -1 elo, which underflows to 3200

[@Amoeba_Podre]

The 1 stands for her position on the leader boards

[@gauteskar-hovde9457]

3:08 I will rate his calculations nein out of 10

[@spiritualsunc]

pun intended?

[@teenspirit1]

@@spiritualsunc Pawn definitely intended.

[@FernLovebond]

Hell yes, more Mittens. You do SO much better than me against that little fluffball, so despite the losses, I feel a little vindicated.

[@buh3746]

i like it when he gets more serious actually analyzing and playing carefully

[@GaryTheGray]

The anguished Dohs, Oh No's, and What to Do ... I felt that.

[@zzantares]

At 19:40 I don't understand why the fork with Kb5 doesn't work?

[@benoplustee]

If you end up drawing mittens I'd like to see that x)

[@pro-11-brawlstars68]

Hikaru did

[@benoplustee]

@@pro-11-brawlstars68 I saw !

[@shaunrichmusic]

I'm loving the Mittens content!

[@bhgtree]

Love the Mittens content, when Eric, Gotham, Hikaru etc. plays. The 1 must mean Mittens is a Queen fan (Another 1 bites the dust) :grinning_face:

[@radioman7777]

Duck V. Kittens smack down of the century

[@argothiel]

Yes, we want it. Looks like a great story of you vs. your nemesis.

[@samrush]

"it's just confusing me with poetry I have to stay focused on the position"

[@arc-sd8sk]

picturing the king just waltzing through the center of a battle is delightful

[@TheUncutAngel]

plot twist, mittens is just 200 points higher than whoever it faces.

[@frankspencer6935]

I have beaten all the other cats but Mittens is like The Borg.

[@DekritGampamole]

I feel so funny that these adults want to bully a kitten, but it was so satisfying that almost all of them went home feeling like a cat toy

[@adityapranjal6556]

At 17:38 I only thought Rxd5 would follow up with Nb6+ discovered check, leading to Nxd5..

[@QuotePilgrim]

Mittens is almost definitely not based on Stockfish. It's most likely KomodoDragon 3.

[@alessandropancrazio]

"It's confusing me with poetry"

[@mypony891]

I'd like to see more thorough analysis. Some of your moves were the best but I still have no clue why things couldn't be taken

[@fhdb6296]

2:22 Is knight a5 a good move or not?,it puts pressure on the pinned c6 knight,and also defends our pawn in d4

[@justrnfr]

"I will ignore Mittens trashtalk" - "It's just confusing me with poetry"

[@MyBiPolarBearMax]

Playing gambits and tactical chess is not the way I would go Eric 😅

[@Pharoom]

Mittens is the chess equivalent of a Dark Souls boss

[@savakirilov5263]

No it isn't, a dark souls boss is hard but always possible with the intent to be overcome at one point , mittens is the chess equivalent of a scripted death after a bossfight

[@linuslucke3838]

@@savakirilov5263 Hikaru drew Mittens

[@savakirilov5263]

@@linuslucke3838 yea , I just watched the video , it also lost to gecko 13 , so it's below 3400 , but it won against maximum , so it's 3200+. Point is it's not possible to beat it for 99.9% of players , no matter how much you attempt it

[@rahem8004]

Why you didn't take the bishop in D5, at least you have a better chance

[@RemyWillard]

As long as the content isn't too taxing on your chess health, by all means continue challenging Mittens. 😹

[@chesswithconstantine]

There would be no need to trick Mittens if only people played the Constantine way.

[@flyingcheburek2320]

"Oh no, my king!"

[@mathiasdube64]

Please team up with chess players and together take the damn cat down

[@pauledo5026]

You gave away a bishop for some pawns that's just so bad overthinking

[@gigas81]

Well it COULD be a series Rosen, where you get adopted by Mittens?? hehe

[@Stepbrohelp]

Mittens is so disrespectful for putting her king on e4 with literally no piece in any of the 8 squares touching it and STILL be in a position where she can leave it there for a long time and be winning.

[@Confidential2U]

I honestly think mittens just plays theory and moves from other games that match what has been played up to that point that has the highest chance of it winning along with having an engine. That explains how it makes some moves like a human but after so far it gets to a point where it just looks like it's making top engine moves

[@wittykittywoes]

im not very into chess. But when i first saw mittens i thought it was based on someone’s actual cat, and would be awful. (cats are not known for their good chess skills)

[@blueberryoatmeal4009]

I'm now addicted to Mittens-related videos, send help

[@piercearora7681]

Yeah me too lmao

[@dksp17]

24:41 tower g7 was the winning move!!

[@bryanlaabs]

I forgot all about panziani I might have to look into this again

[@ravendon]

Mittens is using games against stronger players to get better at chess. Don't play Mittens if your elo is above 1000! Mittens will take over the world!

[@Zane_DX]

Yes, especially after Gothamchess video showing that fish is better than cat

[@PkGam]

Something tells me that even though it seen a disadvantage, it also seen far enough ahead that it wouldn't have made a difference in the end result either because of engine's strength at out-positioning humans or due to piece material not mattering. Sort of like how a rook vs knight end game is a draw despite the rook side being 2 up. Namely because I think Mittens is designed to toy with opponents. I seen some people say they are like 500 rated and lasted 20-30 turns while others higher had about the same result. I've also seen people report draws across a bunch of different ratings. So it's like Mittens draws at times to give players hope it's possible to win when it's actually not. So it's a deviously hilarious bot idea! It's also possible that maybe if Stockfish went deeper that it actually wasn't a disadvantage. Depends' on what the evaluation algorithms for each are. I'd have to let the engine run on the position for a while to see.

[@chullupa]

mittens is a bot that isn't a bot. in other words, it is the first bot that pairs you with an anonymous player and both of you think you are playing an engine but in reality you are both playing each other.

[@ignantxxxninja]

btw Mittens is higher than a 1 ELO actually

[@stephenmcdonald9859]

Love it. I like the humility and attempt!

[@thecakeredux]

That game was so captivating that my dinner got cold in front of me.

[@dalibormraovic1547]

Wondering why U didn't move your black bishop 8:41🙂?

[@Not-You-Tuber]

Try to make a draw with this cute mitten.. Before that we want rematch again and again..

[@kinshukbansal771]

why didnt black take the bishop at 8 : 55

[@Skelewar]

I feel like you forgot you have pawns by like move 20.

[@Solace-T]

yes please I want more mittens

[@user80204]

I don't know why you didn't take bishop d5

[@yuukiggentleman]

I would like Watching a bot being like mittens but if it Has Mate in 1 it will search for a Better one xd

[@franciscopen1681]

More, but please take your time, I get the impression that you don't fully calculate in deep

[@alnath01]

there is a new challenge now : who will 1rst release a "How I beat Mittens" video ? 🤣 this guy will get a big psychological advantage 😁

[@johanandhira5429]

Mitten bot is either playing 4000 elo and 1000 elo moves. No inbetween

[@scottmartin6709]

Very good explanations for a player rated a measly 875

[@poyntz55]

I tried and hot smashed, admittedly I am terrible at chess but how is it a 1?

[@nommchompsky]

"This is serious chess" against a kitten named Mittens

[@StefanReich]

So someone took a random chess engine, hid the rating, added some silly scripted cat lines... and that's somehow interesting?

[@coolbarend4449]

More mittens please!

[@Zalied]

it would make sense to have mittens have a very high elo that can usually win. but purposely play in a way to make the player think it can do well before crushing the player. How would it do this in code would be Look at many moves, dont play a bad move but dont play a move that removes all possible opponent moves. keeping the game in a more even playing field always trying to make it feel close until it cant and then play the best moves to destroy the opponent. well some variation of that at least the idea of using a high powered bot to "toy" with the player as best as a bot can

[@inexistence1691]

i wanna see more!

[@jameswentland6604]

Play the hippo against mittens

[@unluckym3]

Can we talk about why he has martin with 1 star

[@mittarimato8994]

I wanna see someone beat Mittens without the assistance (that could be given at the start)

[@nicoz4717]

Now play duck chess against mittens!

[@AFastidiousCuber]

Mittens is probably Komodo Dragon not Stockfish.

[@grzesiek7358]

IMeow ROSEN, let's fish!

[@rayclay2]

thank you. that cute kitty does have a sophisticated foul mouth~! ❤ hi twitch fans ~

[@DeadFishies]

The mittens series would be fantastic

[@jinx1137]

Maybe mittens plays based on your opening tree