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Bots shouldn't count as human players

Yes! Bots also give rating points. It's half the rate of non bots accounts.
Bots cannot get marked for making many blunders.
I won to a bot and I got 1 point. I lost and then I lost 15 points
Balanced?
@rickrenegade #14

We don't play casual games the same way we play rated games. In order for the bots to get reliable ratings, we need their opponents to play their best, and that means putting their own rating on the table.

A couple years ago, we tried to give the "Play with the machine" levels actual ratings. It didn't work, because we don't play them seriously, because we don't lose rating to them.
Was the original post about this:
Go to lichess.org/games/search
Select: Human
Select the second opponent: Computer.
But wait, their is nowhere to select second opponent!

Maybe the original post should have said feature request to have a second feature for the other opponent. That way a person can search games with that criteria.

Example:
Human vs Bot (Robot engine)
Bot vs Bot
Human vs Human
Titled Master vs LM.

It's about using general differences to select a group without needing to enter a name of a player.

The feature might be useful for someone wishing to create a database with those types of selected headings.

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