Getting bots to play a certain way

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Avatar of ArizonaMartin

Can I get bots to play a certain way so I can study particular strategies? Nelson Lopez has a great video about how to counter the Fried Liver with the Traxler, and I'd like to practice against bots. But I I don't know how to "force" them to play that. 

Avatar of yetanotheraoc

If by "bot" you mean an online engine, your options are limited. But if you download an engine and a GUI to your computer then you can do it in different ways. Put "Practice your opening against an engine" into a search engine like duckduckgo and there are some articles on how to do it, including one here at chess.com.

https://www.chess.com/forum/view/chess-openings/practice-opening-against-an-engine

The one at chesspub dot com was written by me, but it's a little geeky.