I hear from people that my easy level at regular chess is to hard. It’s really not. I”m going to talk about how to beat Pulsar at chess and at end discuss its Loser’s Chess variant strategy.
A common handicapping method today is to introduce mistakes but keep the program on its good moves mostly strong. So suddenly players find a tactic and win something. Pulsar on Easy plays very well if you play it for material. The trick is to realize it has really horrible king safety. It will fall for some very simple mates even if you’re already a piece down. And it can be chasing material you don’t protect well on the Queen side while you go after its King side. This hold true somewhat as you progress levels. The blind mates it will fall for won’t be as simple as on Easy but its generally weak on king safety on first few levels.
The next way to beat it is in the endgame. If you can hold it even to some type of even pawn ending or few pieces and pawns its general strategy is to push its pawn. But it’s not seeing very deeply. You can find the traps and zaps of endgame that work against an opponent who doesn’t really plan.
Both these strategies can help players at chess. The first teaches you how to use king attacks against players playing for material but paying less attention to their king. The second teaches you to learn the traps and zaps in endgame against players who plan less well than you.
Now in Loser’s Chess its strategy in the first part of the game it’s trying to lose all its pawns, but it will try to hold onto other pieces. Once every pawn is gone it just tries to lose any piece it can.