Can Stockfish 14 Beat the Chess.com Max Engine with Only Knights?

Hello all! In this video Stockfish 14 (~3750 elo) will be taking on Chess.com's max engine (3200 elo) with some quite interesting odds: Stockfish's back rank pieces have been replaced by knights! Black does have two knights removed to make it a bit more fair (if black has knights in the starting position, black has a -14.8 advantage!), but Stockfish is still down by an engine reading of -6. This is a known odds setup called "Knightmare" odds :D Can Stockfish confuse the max engine with its surplus of knights?

As noted at the end, chess.com has recently removed the glitch I would always use for making these videos. Basically, the glitch allowed me to get the custom positions you see in my videos against bots in the computer tab. Being in the "computer" tab ensured the bots would spend at least a bit of time pondering their moves.

However, now I can only get the custom positions in the "analysis" tab. The bots from this tab at chess.com will just spit out moves, as seen in this very video. Also, you don't get any crowns from beating the bots in the analysis tab as you do in the computer tab, so the best way to beat any bot is by making it a bullet game and simply trying to flag the bot you’re playing against 😅

A good thing is that with patching the glitch, they made it so you could hide the analysis bar in the analysis tab, so the only real changes in my videos you will see is that the bots will spend less time thinking. Let me know if you would like me to edit the video so the bot (at least artificially) spends some time thinking.

Thank you all for the support! Feel free to leave any video suggestions in the comments; I read them all!

Hardware: Acer Aspire 5 laptop with AMD Ryzen 7 3700U dual-core CPU, GeForce MX450 GPU, 8GB RAM

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If you’re curious what the glitch looked like:    • How to Checkmate Any Chess.com Bot AN...   sorry about mic audio :( but still should be able to follow I hope

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SPOILER: - Game PGN:

[Event "Can Stockfish 14 Beat the Chess.com Max Engine with Only Knights?"]
[Site "Chess.com"]
[Date "Jul 18, 2021"]
[White "Stockfish 14 NNUE (30 depth)"]
[Black "Chess.com Max Engine"]
[WhiteElo "3750"]
[BlackElo "3200"]
[FEN "r1bqkb1r/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/NNNNKNNN w kq - 0 1"]

1. d4 e5 2. dxe5 d6 3. exd6 Bxd6 4. Nhg3 b6 5. Nd3 Bb7 6. Nf3 Qd7 7. Nde3 g6 8.
Nc4 O-O-O 9. Nxd6+ Qxd6 10. Nb3 Rhe8 11. Nb3d2 f5 12. Nc3 Qf6 13. e4 Ba6 14. Nb4
Bb7 15. Nd3 h6 16. e5 Qf8 17. b3 g5 18. Nge2 Ba6 19. Nc4 b5 20. Ncb2 c5 21. N3d2
Qh8 22. f4 gxf4 23. Nf3 Qg7 24. Kf2 c4 25. bxc4 bxc4 26. Ndxf4 Qb7 27. Nbd1 Qc7
28. Ncd5 Qb8 29. Nd1e3 Rxe5 30. Nxf5 Ree8 31. N1e3 Bb7 32. Nde7+ Kd7 33. Nfd5
Bxd5 34. N3xd5 Rxe7 35. Ndxe7 Qb6+ 36. Ned4 Kc7 37. g4 c3 38. h4 Qa6 39. g5 hxg5
40. hxg5 Qxa2 41. g6 Qc4 42. g7 a5 43. Ne5 Qc5 44. N5c6 Re8 45. Kg2 Qc4 46. Ne5
Qa2 47. Kf3 Rd8 48. Kf4 Rb8 49. Kg5 Rb1 50. Kf6 Kb7 51. Ne6 Rg1 52. N7g6 Rb1 53.
Nd6+ Ka7 54. Nc6+ Kb6 55. g8=Q Rf1+ 56. Ke7 Qxe6+ 57. Qxe6 Rb1 58. Kd7 Rb5 59.
Qc4 Rb4 60. Qd5 a4 61. Qa5# 1-0