How to install a BOT on Lichess?

How do you specify number of threads? It doesn't seem to take an integer value.

Make it a string. "4" instead of 4

That doesn't seem to work arex, when I use a string value I get a chess.engine.EngineTerminatedException.

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Traceback (most recent call last):
File ".../lichess-uci-bot/main.py", line 200, in <module>
start(li, user_profile, engine_path, weights_path, CONFIG["threads"])
File ".../lichess-uci-bot/main.py", line 47, in start
play_game(li, game_id, weights, threads)
File ".../lichess-uci-bot/main.py", line 58, in play_game
engine, info_handler = setup_engine(engine_path, board, weights, threads)
File ".../lichess-uci-bot/main.py", line 142, in setup_engine
engine.uci()
File "...\Programs\Python\Python36-32\lib\site-packages\chess\uci.py", line 688, in uci
return self._queue_command(command, async_callback)
File "...\Programs\Python\Python36-32\lib\site-packages\chess\uci.py", line 666, in _queue_command
return future.result(timeout=FUTURE_POLL_TIMEOUT)
File "...\Programs\Python\Python36-32\lib\concurrent\futures\_base.py", line 432, in result
return self.__get_result()
File "...\Programs\Python\Python36-32\lib\concurrent\futures\_base.py", line 384, in __get_result
raise self._exception
File "...\Programs\Python\Python36-32\lib\concurrent\futures\thread.py", line 56, in run
result = self.fn(*self.args, **self.kwargs)
File "...\Programs\Python\Python36-32\lib\site-packages\chess\uci.py", line 686, in command
raise EngineTerminatedException()
chess.engine.EngineTerminatedException
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Should I better install 64 bit Python? Or it's fine with 32 bit? I have 64 bit Windows 7, but when I downloaded Python from the official site, it installed 32 bit version.

And is this ok?
pastebin.com/ckAHHMJm

@Chesstroll_Ingot I don't know much about your error (except that it's certainly not okay), but I strongly recommend you use something like pastebin.com/ to store large quantities of text and then post a link to it in your forum post. It makes things a lot less messy.

If these accounts are bots then why are they not online 24/7 so we can challenge them whenever we please? Bots don't need sleep.

@NeverBeenTimid Because the applications that run the bots are not hosted on Lichess' servers, but on the computers of anyone that runs a bot account. They might not want, or be able to, keep the bots alive 24/7.

That makes sense. Thanks @ProgramFOX

hey Dudes, that is interesting news, thanks a lot to @thibault and friends!!!

Some questions:

* Bot accounts: Can these also be humans using computers or must this exclusively be computers?
* How to challenge? Where to find challenges? Do bots simply put challenges in Lobby?
* is improving the opening book of a bot over time considered sandbagging? (see #4)

Cool new feature!