does playing against computer helps?

Well it helps when you learn new gambits and wants to practise and also when yoy dont want your rating to fall while playing tp an human

Also computers have differt ratings which will help u a lot

Eventually you need to move on and play some real humans, but if you are a total beginner playing against the computer will help you develop your board vision, and that's what most beginners are lacking.  It is important though to go over your games and see what you could have done better rather than rush on to the next game.  Good luck!

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thank you!!

yes.  The computer is patient if you want to take your time, its open to takebacks (bad practice/habit long term, but as a raw beginner, it can be helpful to try again), and you can set it up to to be just enough better than yourself that you start to improve.  The computer should win more than half your games, and you should consider a takeback a loss if you allow them. 

Playing with computers is good. But playing with humans is best. Only my personal opinion. 

I think I am very mixed on this. 

Before the Internet and after the creation of computer opponents, computer opponents were essential, because it was difficult to arrange a chess match, but a computer is always ready to play. 

Now, I am not sure. Like humans, computers favor certain openings, and certain attacks. Play Leela Chess Zero on white, and she will always choose a queen pawn opening.  Humans prefer king pawn openings, so that puts you at a disadvantage against humans if your time only playing Leela. Stockfish favors the Pirc Defense, but you won't see that until you are in somewhat higher play.

Computers also play weird. When you analysis your game, you can kind of see what your human opponent was going for when they blunder, but computers are just, nuts. Sometimes their blunders are just, like, insane. 

With the Internet, you can play humans all day, every day, at a moment's notice. 

However, humans have their own issues. Ratings are just an approximation, and sometimes an opponent is overrated or underrated. I have gotten 900 rated opponents pulling off some insane stuff, and I think they are underrated just because they don't take online chess seriously. So if you get them on a hot day, then you aren't playing a 900. 

The best is to find humans that challenge you, but not too much, that you can have multiple matches against in a very slow time control. That is where the most growth happens. Getting there is tough, though.  

On daily chess, you are allowed to use an opening book, which lets you think and decide against a real person.  

On the one hand, you can use an analysis board, set up your own variations and test one out against the bots now. That is helpful. On the other, bots are awkward. Either they absent-mindedly give you pieces or they play you like a world champion candidates tournament. People making people mistakes and people good moves is better. Click the analyze after, learn, try again.

Classic question. It is fine but doesn't compare to playing vs a human. But better than not playing.

I played a long time against computers because I didn't want to waste anyone's time. Then I'd play 5 min. because the most I could waste was 10 min. But really, it's not surgery, nobody's going to sustain a lingering injury from playing a really bad player.

Play against both.  Also, set up a real board when you play to train 3D vision.  I played a game against my beginner daughter today, and being so accustomed to 2D games on screen, she should have beat me easily with all the stupid blunders I made, and I should have lost, save for the mate in one move that was sitting there for about 3 moves before I saw it.

The beginners have all the advantages of the internet, youtube and readily available computers to learn and play against that older players did not have when we learned.  I must say that the level of beginner chess is far and away more advanced than back in the day when chess books were impossible to decipher (they still are), or no one was around to teach even a few of the common openings. So, take notes and practice.

Levy from GothamChess on Youtube had a video about this recently. He sums up his thoughts at the end about bots. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuSU_i16HZw&t=5s

In my opinion don't play with bots with Elo lower than 1000. They play illogical, worse than 500 elo player. You can learn bad habits cuz of them. Play with strong bots, take your time and don't blunder.