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Advanced Search makes a semantic error

When I go to "Advanced Search" on a players profile, I get a combo box "Opponent (?)" where I can select "Human" or "Computer". When I select "Human" the result contains all games against bots (and human players). That seems to be semantically wrong. Lichess can distinguish bots from human players (bots have the purple BOT in front of their name). So there has to be a flag that identifies bots.

suggested solution: If I select "Human" then the result should only contain games against players that are NOT bots. If I select "Computer" the result should contain all games against computers AND against the known bots.
Probably we should stop calling the built-in Stockfish "the computer". Once upon a time, phrases like "Play Against The Computer" were unambiguous, but not any more. With bots, there are many "computers".

To @kaimauer's issue, I'd suggest an alternate query with three options: Human, Bot, and Computer (or whatever we rename it).

Stockfish? Lichess Engine? Built-in Engine? Something like that.
Hi,

yes, a combo box with 3 options Human, Bot, Computer would be a good solution, too.

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