[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":65},["ShallowReactive",2],{"bot-mirag":3},{"id":4,"aboutLong":5,"age":6,"botId":7,"country":8,"countryCode":9,"elo":10,"extension":11,"faq":12,"favoriteQuote":22,"gender":23,"hello":24,"introduction":25,"isTrophy":26,"liveDate":27,"luckyCharm":25,"meta":28,"name":29,"occupation":30,"openingAxes":25,"openingsAnalysis":25,"playstyle":25,"playstyleSummary":31,"ratingHistory":25,"shortName":29,"similar":32,"stem":56,"trophyQuirk":57,"trophyUnlock":60,"whoShouldPlay":63,"__hash__":64},"bots/bots/mirag.json","The Mirage is a trophy bot on Chessiverse, an ageless desert mystic who has wandered the wastes so long that the heat-haze has half-claimed him. His warning to visitors is simple: 'Stand still in my desert and the sand will take you.' That warning is literal at the board. His pieces fade from view when they sit still, dissolving into the shimmer, and reappear only in the moment they move. Opponents must therefore hold the position in memory, tracking pieces that are present but no longer visible. Like all trophy bots, The Mirage has no fixed strength. He adapts to whoever sits across from him, playing at roughly the level of his opponent, from beginner to master. He cannot simply be selected; he is earned by playing 50 rated games, with aborted games not counting toward the total. Facing him means playing sound chess against a board that keeps slipping out of sight.","ageless","mirag","The Burning Wastes","unknown",1500,"json",[13,16,19],{"question":14,"answer":15},"What rating is The Mirage?","The Mirage has no fixed rating. As a trophy bot he is adaptive, always playing at roughly the strength of the person facing him, whether that is a beginner or a master. Every game against him should feel like an even fight.",{"question":17,"answer":18},"How do I unlock The Mirage?","The Mirage is a trophy bot, so he cannot be selected freely. He is unlocked by playing 50 rated games on Chessiverse. Aborted games do not count toward the total.",{"question":20,"answer":21},"What is The Mirage's specialty?","His pieces fade from view after sitting still, disappearing into the heat-haze, and reappear the moment they move. That means opponents must remember where his hidden pieces are rather than relying on what the board shows. It turns every game into a test of memory and board vision.","Stand still in my desert and the sand will take you.","male","Welcome, traveler. You have crossed a long stretch of sand to find me, and yet you may already be looking through me. The heat here has claimed half of what I was. Sit, play, but keep your pieces moving. Stand still in my desert and the sand will take you.",null,true,"2026-06-15T00:00:00.000Z",{},"The Mirage","Desert mystic who fades into the heat-haze","The Mirage's play is defined entirely by his vanishing act. Any of his pieces that sits still for a while fades from view into the heat-haze, leaving an apparently empty square that is anything but. The moment a hidden piece moves, it reappears. The challenge is one of memory and board vision: opponents must track where his forces stand even when the board shows nothing there.",{"sameStyle":33,"different":55},[34,39,43,47,51],{"botId":35,"name":36,"elo":10,"country":37,"countryCode":9,"category":38},"avlan","Avalanche","The Frostpeaks",3,{"botId":40,"name":41,"elo":10,"country":42,"countryCode":9,"category":38},"bongc","The Bongcloud King","The Kingdom of Folly",{"botId":44,"name":45,"elo":10,"country":46,"countryCode":9,"category":38},"chimr","The Chimera","No Fixed Form",{"botId":48,"name":49,"elo":10,"country":50,"countryCode":9,"category":38},"elord","Edge Lord","The Outer Rim",{"botId":52,"name":53,"elo":10,"country":54,"countryCode":9,"category":38},"exart","Exchange Artist","The Carnival",[],"bots/mirag",{"name":29,"description":58,"effect":59},"A desert mystic so long in the wastes that the heat has half-claimed him; stand still and the sand will take you.","The bot's pieces fade from view into the heat-haze after sitting still, and reappear the moment they move.",{"type":61,"gamesRequired":62},"games_played",50,"The Mirage suits players working toward the 50 rated games needed to unlock him, and anyone who wants a trophy to show for the grind. Because he scales to his opponent's level, he fits beginners and masters alike as a permanent sparring partner. He is especially rewarding for players who want to train blindfold-style memory and board vision, since his fading pieces force calculation without full visual information.","Uad4SiijnjPU_XIk-af11gkpJ4-bap6sKTeQs5dXM74",1783353259886]