Awesome. Thanks for this. Very helpful. Ben, we need to get you your own 1500 bot on chess.com. He'd always play the Danish or some aggressive gambit, he'd playfully taunt players for forgetting to goldfish and leaving pieces undefended, and Jack would make random sounds in the background... He would soon surpass Nelson in popularity and develop his own cult following... How do we make this happen?
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Apr 7, 2021
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Ha ha, if GM Simon Williams doesn't get a bot, there's no hope for me. By the way, the cockerel's name is actually Jag, short for Jaguar... we have a lot of animals named after cars with dogs named Bentley, Cooper, Jensen, Cosworth, and cats called Aston, Enzo, and Dino :-)
Apr 7, 2021
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Ben, I've said it on YouTube and I'll say it here: your videos are extremely helpful to those of us down in the 0–1000 rating range. There are a few dozen I've watched multiple times to let all the advice sink in. My ratings may not be climbing yet, but at least I feel like I'm a better player because I'm thinking more carefully. So, thanks a million times over! And...maybe just for fun, you could do a video introducing us to the different animals around the place! Give our best to Jag and the rest of the non-human crew. 
extra coding required: we need that Ben Bot to have the sound of a rooster in the back!
One of my YouTube viewers asked me to make a video on how you actually play on chess.com, so I made this. It includes a bunch of tips that new members here may find helpful.