[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":139},["ShallowReactive",2],{"bot-vang":3},{"id":4,"aboutLong":5,"age":6,"botId":7,"country":8,"countryCode":9,"dataHash":10,"dateModified":11,"elo":12,"extension":13,"faq":14,"favoriteQuote":24,"gender":25,"hello":26,"introduction":27,"isTrophy":28,"liveDate":29,"luckyCharm":30,"meta":31,"name":32,"occupation":33,"openingAxes":34,"openingsAnalysis":36,"playstyle":37,"playstyleSummary":41,"ratingHistory":42,"shortName":108,"similar":109,"stem":136,"trophyQuirk":36,"trophyUnlock":36,"whoShouldPlay":137,"__hash__":138},"bots/bots/vang.json","Mai Vang is a 43-year-old Hmong story-cloth embroiderer from Minnesota who keeps a chessboard on her worktable in a community-center craft room outside Saint Paul. She learned the rules from a niece and plays casually between rows of stitches, never having studied theory or trained seriously. Her estimated rating of 516 reflects an absolute beginner who knows how the pieces move but hangs material and misses obvious threats every few moves. She has no fixed opening repertoire and approaches the board the way she approaches a new paj ntaub panel, placing pieces by feel rather than plan. Players sitting down across from Mai can expect a quiet, friendly game with frequent blunders on her side, occasional surprising attacks when she senses an opening, and a calm patience that does not change whether the position is winning or lost.","43","vang","USA","us","2a48f2b5c722169f6800cccec2aa6a53f5ed782979ae12d900d51b8388d8a51d","2026-07-06",516,"json",[15,18,21],{"question":16,"answer":17},"What rating is Mai?","Mai's estimated rating is 516, which places her firmly in the absolute beginner range. She knows how the pieces move and understands basic captures, but she hangs material and overlooks obvious threats on a regular basis.",{"question":19,"answer":20},"What opening does Mai play?","Mai has no fixed opening repertoire on file. She has never studied theory and simply places her pieces by feel, so her first moves vary from game to game and rarely follow any mainline.",{"question":22,"answer":23},"Is Mai a good first opponent for someone learning chess?","Yes, Mai is one of the better choices for a brand-new player. At 516 Elo she blunders pieces often and plays without opening knowledge, giving beginners realistic chances to spot hanging pieces, practice basic tactics, and finish a full game without feeling overwhelmed.","Every cloth has wrong stitches — you take them out and stitch again.","female","Hello, I'm Mai. Come sit with me at the worktable, I'll move my little villagers across the cloth while you lay down your bright threads. I don't know the patterns well, so we'll just see how the panel comes together, stitch by stitch.","Mai stitches paj ntaub story-cloths in a quiet community-center craft room outside Saint Paul, Minnesota, where she works in the same patient rhythm her grandmother taught her in a Thai refugee camp decades ago. Her panels record village life, journeys, and the small daily moments her family carried with them across an ocean. She picked up chess from a niece and now keeps a board on the worktable, moving pieces between rows of stitches.",false,"2026-05-08T00:00:00.000Z","A small wooden embroidery hoop her grandmother used in the camp — kept on the corner of the worktable whenever she plays.",{},"Mai Vang","Minnesota Hmong story-cloth embroiderer",{"solid_sharp":35,"unprepared_theoretical":35},0,null,{"defensive_aggressive":38,"simplifying_complicating":39,"category":40},0.9,-0.89,4,"Mai plays surprisingly aggressively for a beginner, pushing pieces forward and chasing threats rather than building careful defenses. She likes to simplify the board quickly, trading off her little villagers whenever a swap is offered, which keeps positions clear but often costs her material. Her opening choices are unstudied and offbeat, neither sharp nor solid in any consistent way, with each game shaped by intuition rather than any learned line.",[43,45,47,50,52,55,58,61,64,67,70,73,76,79,82,85,87,89,91,94,96,98,100,103,105],{"rating":12,"msSinceEpoch":44},1778345095984,{"rating":12,"msSinceEpoch":46},1778421534508,{"rating":48,"msSinceEpoch":49},515,1778460886043,{"rating":48,"msSinceEpoch":51},1778515148173,{"rating":53,"msSinceEpoch":54},513,1778563450512,{"rating":56,"msSinceEpoch":57},505,1778631164878,{"rating":59,"msSinceEpoch":60},496,1778790266200,{"rating":62,"msSinceEpoch":63},487,1778791747845,{"rating":65,"msSinceEpoch":66},478,1778802488226,{"rating":68,"msSinceEpoch":69},468,1778819784179,{"rating":71,"msSinceEpoch":72},467,1778891321452,{"rating":74,"msSinceEpoch":75},457,1778894609992,{"rating":77,"msSinceEpoch":78},448,1778909885674,{"rating":80,"msSinceEpoch":81},442,1778955061978,{"rating":83,"msSinceEpoch":84},435,1778961897102,{"rating":83,"msSinceEpoch":86},1778965481409,{"rating":83,"msSinceEpoch":88},1778984501825,{"rating":83,"msSinceEpoch":90},1778985498835,{"rating":92,"msSinceEpoch":93},434,1779058541152,{"rating":92,"msSinceEpoch":95},1779059870371,{"rating":92,"msSinceEpoch":97},1779060688030,{"rating":92,"msSinceEpoch":99},1779060730946,{"rating":101,"msSinceEpoch":102},424,1779164332892,{"rating":101,"msSinceEpoch":104},1779213995514,{"rating":106,"msSinceEpoch":107},416,1779294575078,"Mai",{"sameStyle":110,"different":125},[111,117,121],{"botId":112,"name":113,"elo":114,"country":115,"countryCode":116,"category":40},"doher","Cormac Doherty",537,"United Kingdom","gb",{"botId":118,"name":119,"elo":120,"country":8,"countryCode":9,"category":40},"yazzi","Marlene Yazzie",495,{"botId":122,"name":123,"elo":124,"country":8,"countryCode":9,"category":40},"lefko","Miriam Lefkowitz",475,[126,131],{"botId":127,"name":128,"elo":129,"country":8,"countryCode":9,"category":130},"carus","Donatella Caruso",512,3,{"botId":132,"name":133,"elo":134,"country":115,"countryCode":116,"category":135},"prich","Bethan Pritchard",520,5,"bots/vang","Mai is a good match for absolute beginners rated roughly 300 to 700, or for anyone who has just learned the rules and wants a calm, unintimidating opponent. Because she pushes pieces forward and trades willingly, players practicing how to punish loose attacks, capture hanging pieces, and convert simple material advantages into wins will get plenty of useful repetitions in a low-pressure setting.","pDTrnH4yS3rnM_e9W6NVcVcBflpwy_a6OO421bnKEac",1784583549558]