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The Birth of a New Bot
This is the creation of a brand new Lichess bot from a dedicated coder. However, its beginnings are always mundane.SURPRISINGLY EASY BOT SETUP
Creating a bot is surprisingly not too hard, and any old person can do it.
There are other posts about creating a bot, but to create it:
- Create a new bot account
- Finish upgrading your bot
- Pick an engine or code it yourself
THE BIRTH OF A NEW BOT
With this, I have created Dean_Summer_Bot. It currently uses HyperBot combined with Heroku to get it running for free most of the day, but there are a great variety of options. Its Heroku page is located here.
Despite all of its current drawbacks, Dean_Summer_Bot is about 2600 rated.
0+1 DRAW - ACC_FOREVER
ACC_Forever is a 2300 bot as directly seen on Lichess.
Here is a 0+1 game between me and ACC_Forever:
CONCLUSION
Of course, this is just the start of Dean_Summer_Bot. As of right now, it is pretty mundane as it's just using HyperBot. I can use random moves and disable rated games if I wanted to, but RandomMoverBot is strangely still working, even though it broke the Lichess TOS (probably because it's a resource for free rating).