What bots are recommmended for beginners?
Forget the colourful "personality" bots, they are a distraction.
Select an engine rating that beats you more often than not. Play it until you can beat it 4 times consecutively. Then increase the engine level by one, etc.
Back in the day the engine levels were 1-10. I started out at level 3 and played until I was regularly beating level 5. This took about a year but the gains in playing ability were well worth it.
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