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Chess bots with less obvious blunders?

For realistic blunders, run a Stockfish on your computer at the lowest depth allowed. Any chess engine should work, but Maia and the nibbler GUI is probably best for you.
https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/releases
https://github.com/CSSLab/maia-chess
https://github.com/rooklift/nibbler/releases

Try the bots rated between 1200-1500.
I find bots of that rating tend to hang their pieces routinely. Those of 2000+ are far less likely to.

For realistic blunders, run a Stockfish on your computer at the lowest depth allowed. Any chess engine should work, but Maia and the nibbler GUI is probably best for you.
https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/releases
Thanks for these tips! I installed Nibbler, SCID, Stockfish and caissabase and currently figuring out how they work. Also trying the Maia bot on LC which looks promising so far. Perhaps I will install the weights locally as well for offline play.
I am somewhat surprised that there is not more, polished software available for using these on MacOS though. The interfaces so far are a little arcane and unintuitive. Then again, they are free and provide tremendous value, so perhaps I just need to get used to them.
Hi, I have just started practicing chess. Been able to play since I was a kid but never played seriously, just a handful of games against family/friends over the years.
During my recent holiday trip I somehow got hooked and am now trying to put in some daily deliberate practice / training and looking for an occasional game online. Working my way through the puzzles and lessons mostly for now.
I find it practical to play against the computer as well but it seems that the lower level bots all seem to make enormous blunders which seem atypical in matches against online players.
Can you recommend the best ways to play against the computer, but against bots / engines that make more realistic mistakes? I feel it would be more beneficial for my development, not getting some sort of obvious loss of queen during the game. Should I just stick with stockfish? or are there better beginner friendly engines here on chess.com?