Loving the site, thanks originators, mods, et al.
One question...on that other biggest site, you play robots all the time. That's okay, keeps everyone playing and you can learn many different things and openings to play against. So here at LiChess, do we play against robots sometime? On that other site, you can't of course always get a game instantly, so they will throw a robot game at you to make you happy.
Does that happen here?
Sure, you can play against the machine, there is a botton next to the lobby which says "play with the machine", you can select the level to your preference.
I'd rather play against humans, tho, I think it is more fun.
:)
No. I mean on that other site, they secretly put robots against you, pretending to be real players. They're often from India or Sudan.
I prefer real players too.
You mean
chess.com/? How do you know they use bots?
many things can be said about
chess.com, but i don't think that they use bots posing as humans.
lichess.org also doesn't - at least as far as i know.. :o
we could really use some bots to fill up the less popular time controls
What makes me think they DO use bots posing as humans? Because humans would play often the same opening responses, say at least 50% of the time, often 70+% of the time. Over there, they switch up their responses, 99% of the time. If I play the same opening with a rare opening, say the Black Lion, they will respond with bizarre and very different moves; almost never the same lines. The same with standard openings. I'm 99% certain about them using robots to fill games.
Bottom line, yes I like No Bots...I'd rather wait a while to get a real player, like happens here. Today, my opponent just made a very strange blunder, giving away his Rook, that looked Robotish.
Nope, humans often play different lines just for fun (at least, I do). This is a really weird reason to think that the site use bots.
Giving away a rook is a thing that every human does time to time lol. (Typical example:)
lichess.org/YL3LRNUJ/black#82 Especially in the time pressure. That can as well be a mouse slip and not a real blunder. (In my case it was a blunder, I've forgotten that I already excluded this square earlier, but just didn't find a better one in the position.)
Everyone blunders a rook once in a while.
You can program bots to blunder from time to time and fit into their rating parameters.
Even if you can't make a bot indistinguishable from a human, nobody is gonna take the time to see who is a bot and who is a human. I guess.
Maybe we're all bots.
