Thanks, I hate it. I'm losing every single game (I think I tried like about 30-ish times). If that's how 12-years old are playing them I should probably apply for disability benefits. My naive approach by trying to define safe squares to move pieces to and naive capture goals by exchanging figures of lesser value is not working against this algorithm, I guess I'll probably have better chance if I'd just run the same logic on paper.
You are using something like the same logic as the algorithm itself and describing how a newcomer to the game would play chess. I think this is what they mean by "12 year old". In fact the algorithm probably beats this strategy as your approach probably doesn't identify 2 move 'tactics'.
If you fancy learning more about the game take a look at tactics, and maybe try a tactics trainer. The next level of play is about understanding things like forks and discovered attacks where you aren't assuming that the other player is just going to make huge blunders that give you pieces.
