Silver Fish

How Silver Fish changes the game

It analyzes at full strength but deliberately chooses Stockfish's second-best evaluated move.

Its strength stays between 0 and 3,200 Elo.

Available difficulties

• Original: 3,200 starting Elo

How to play against Silver Fish

Expect principled, accurate chess while looking for the small concession created by passing over the top engine choice.

Community statistics

Games played

420

Wins

313

Player win rate

74.5%

Average game length

34.3 full moves

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• Bipolar Fish — Its Elo alternates between a low and high difficulty-specific value after every move.
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• Distribution Fish — It samples from Stockfish's ranked choices: the best move is most likely, then each following rank is half as likely.

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