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Lichess should create lots of cat and kitten style Bots

What about horsey bots?:-) (Horsey emoticons to this comment are appreciated.)
Personally, I am not attracted by the prospect of facing a cat bot. I have already played against many bots both here and on chess.com, definitely more often than I wanted. :-(
That said, some children can perhaps be attracted by cat bots in the first place, but I guess that most of them quit chess quickly. Of course I might be mistaken.
@Kingscrusher-YouTube said in #9:
> I think the bots are very strong, so having good script writers with a sense of humour will encourage more players to play such fun bots even if they are Stockfish in disguise- and even if they get completely crushed, at least there were some laughs along the way.

Honestly this sounds like something for kids... That aside.. it's a waste of time and resources... Remember you're using lichess FOC... We don't pay for the service they offer... This your request will require using asinine amount of resources.. both processing power... Memory.. and time to invest to create something like this...

And like I said before it has absolutely zero benefit to the site as a whole... Weighing the pros and cons... It's not worth it ...
So the idea here is to have a dummy bots that are not the strongest but yet play ok and make mistakes that lead to funny play. I think for that there are many low rated/beginner styled self made bots, they follow algorithms that a beginner would think of and some bots just make intentional mistakes to play little dummy compared to big and strong stockfishs. Or Maias. I guess the trick here is to give bots personality and put a image to it, but at the backend side of things the code is all same. So yea Lichess does have many bots lower rated from 1500 all the way 600s. So I guess Lichess already have this bots that are self made, I guess giving them a try be worth a shot. Again making bots require lots of compute and maintenance which not considered. But with dummy bots they allow some space because they don’t require that much compute.

The thing is chesscom can sell anything to anyone, even if it’s a kitten face with hidden stockfish running!
> Also we could get script writers to make random comments on all sorts of moves like for example on capture moves, the bot could say :
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> "I am eating your pawn"
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> Maybe for a blockaded IQP it could say , "You have no place to run, mouse!"
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> If you take too long for a move, it could say "Meowww... "
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This is definitely supported by Lichess BOT API in lichess.org/api#tag/Bot/operation/botGameChat anyone can code up a chatline logic and don’t think it’s hard.

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