The chess bot on Delta Air Lines will destroy you

On a long flight, I tried to take down the chess bot available on Delta's entertainment system, only to find out I was utterly hopeless against it. I decided to figure out how good Delta was by pitting it against increasingly strong bots available on chess.com.

[@yeeitslauren]

you were making content and i was watching schitts creek next to you wow

[@raylopez99]

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!

[@hipparcos]

I do remember getting destroyed by some easy mode chess AI on a flight... Maybe this was it.

[@TrombonePirate]

I'm 1750, got destroyed multiple times. I had one game that felt fairly even going into endgame but I got ground out

[@wormby3509]

Ok now i want to see an actual gm fight this thing lol

[@hag12100]

I remembered being on Delta last year...Wow, no wonder I couldn't win. That's not an easy rating for most players..

[@Martineskuelpl]

from evaluation its an easy Bot (GM's version). Made it right on the line between IM and GM

[@henryalexander7325]

Omg yes that thing is ridiculous, I'm 1700 and easy mode kicks my ass every single time

[@hmartinlb]

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).

[@ZDTF]

Good enough editing and commentary that I'd come back and watch new videos

[@frankb.8071]

this is a sick video ngl. just straight to the point. kinda like an mspainexplained video

[@RobLarsen]

This is great. I was shocked at how tough the "easy" level was. Now I know why!

[@robertreid2931]

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.

[@jagi7976]

I mean he is pretty cute but I wouldn’t say one of the finest

[@robertreid2931]

@@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.

[@sam2725]

Should be noted that chesscom bots are about 400 points overrated compared to players. Hikaru bot would probably be similar to 2400 player. Very tough bot non the less

[@ZDTF]

4:04 Most goofy engines have the same problem No opening book But they make up for that fact by calculations Idk how delta didn't see just around 5 moves deep Why did it make such s silly mistake in opening Is it not a calculation bot? Is it an instinct bot like alpha zero? But even alpha zero does some calculations

[@ZDTF]

0:51 No stockfish? Some people think the max 3200 bot is stockfish weaker version but it's actually just Komodo A different bot

[@nathanielscreativecollecti6392]

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.

[@radscorpion8]

fascinating that they only allow you to play easy mode. What could their harder modes be? Maybe you can request that they unlock it

[@ABigLumpofClay]

Don't know if they changed it but I played it couple months ago and beat the 3 star first try

[@moldhaker6527]

Thank you for the video. No wonder I was constantly getting crushed on Easy

[@chasesawyer-miller3125]

Delta bot on easy crushed me over and over again.

[@gnorts_mr_alien]

surprised they didn't arrest you at the airport for cheating.

[@tominmo8865]

Fun content! Like that you invented a tournament like this.

[@ZDTF]

I remember a levy video about him Getting beaten by the same bot

[@Silent_Quasar]

I beat the delta chess bot in hard everytime lol

[@BeepirBypr]

the (easy) difficulty is just there to taunt you

[@thatmetganteacher7776]

why so low sub count :( I subbed

[@ZDTF]

7:28 Hey Why no Komodo fight😢

[@gillyp]

I Wonder how good hard is!

[@ZDTF]

6:08 I don't think it's called draw by stalemate. I think it's called draw by 50 move rule

[@animefan7424]

Yeah it’s draw by 50 move rule

[@ogolem5866]

You have to find the opening that it blunders in and then do the same thing over and over till it plays that opening

[@olivialambert4124]

I have to assume you don't know chess. Most modern bots (past 15 years) won't ever play a bad enough opening to lose to a human. You could manually set the pieces to a terrible disadvantage the bot will never accept in normal play and it will still beat any non titled players. Indeed many super Grandmasters literally remove multiple pieces from the opponent before move 1 and still usually lose despite spending decades studying theory. To suggest any reasonably strong bot will just fall down a rabbit hole of blunders can only really mean you either don't know the sport or just haven't learnt anything since the 1990s.