I usually play bots when I want to try some moves out. When I'm looking for more of a challenge I will play humans.
Interestingly when I play bots I am less anxious and don't really care if I lose the game.
On the other hand when playing people I get more anxious and really hate losing! Therefore my game suffers.
Computers are worse than actual players at their rating... Like how I can easily beat the 800 rating Beth, but I can't beat an actual player at 800...
I know you are so correct!
I've went through all the basic lessons, I play the puzzles often, then started playing against the bots. I just made a simple, arbitrary goal for myself that once I got through all the bots in Beginner and Intermediate and was in the Advanced, or got my puzzle rating up to a certain amount, then I would try against people. That goal was tougher than I originally thought, but I just recently got there on both the puzzle and bots. The challenge got me feeling pretty confident though to play humans.
Bots waste your time.
An exception: playing set positions against full-strength engines is beneficial.
Computers are worse than actual players at their rating... Like how I can easily beat the 800 rating Beth, but I can't beat an actual player at 800...
how do you do this
Computers are worse than actual players at their rating... Like how I can easily beat the 800 rating Beth, but I can't beat an actual player at 800...