Can playing a chess bot all the time make you worse at playing humans?

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Avatar of Bukbat

I have been playing chess for a while but mostly on my phone using some apps.

When I use the apps, it seems like I am getting better but when I come here I get crushed!

So do you think playing bots makes you better at beating that bot or does it actually make your chess better.(at a lower level)

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Sorry guys, I meant to write "chess bots" but dumb autocorrect changed it to "not" in the question of the discussion.

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How can I change it back?

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You can only edit comments on the website version (chess.com)

Avatar of Chilling_on_Wednesday

I have seen the same...

I think the best to do is playing online(with people) to improve.

but I dont think it will make you worse.....

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MegaGamer15 wrote:

You can only edit comments on the website version (chess.com)

I am on the website version but I want to edit the topic question.

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Okay I found it and I have fixed the topic.

Avatar of DetonatorDave

I think you learn to play the machine. If you played the same person all the time, you would learn their weaknesses and how to overcome them. The difference is that people adapt whereas most bots keep their vulnerabilities.

Avatar of markkoso

Yes, you need to be playing human opponents but I think bots are a good way to practice against a opponent stronger than you can easily get a game against. Human opponents miss tactics more and set deliberate traps. Also there are types of positions that are extremely difficult for humans to play but winning for a computer.

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Computers do not attack you with unsound gambits. People do. This requires a completely different train of thought to defend.
Avatar of Hamilton68

I play bots on an e-board. What I've learned is, they never blunder. They may make a weaker move (depending on the level setting) but it's not a mistake. The weaker moves may cost the bot the game, but they won't set pieces down in front of you without a mathematical reason for doing so. So, in many ways, bots are harder to beat than (most) humans who can't calculate 18 levels deep. Bots don't have off-days or mentally fatigue.

But in my opinion and to answer your question: You need to play people to beat people. People don't play like bots and bots don't play like people. 

Avatar of Yurinclez2

playing with bots or engines or coms helps me improve a lot. for me its a better method to be better compared to reading theories and lessons too much. in my experience, i evolve better when i practice, play with stronger opponents, and ignore analyzing chess literatures too much. i don't bother trying to remember openings' names, patterns' names, etc. maybe its because i am more suitable to be a street chess player than a chess scholar.

however, playing with humans especially in rated games can be scary and that discourages me to play. because ya know... its humans after all. who knows? you might meet the malicious ones...who will make excuses to damage your reputation

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Yurinclez2 wrote:

playing with bots or engines or coms helps me improve a lot. for me its a better method to be better compared to reading theories and lessons too much. in my experience, i evolve better when i practice, play with stronger opponents, and ignore analyzing chess literatures too much. i don't bother trying to remember openings' names, patterns' names, etc. maybe its because i am more suitable to be a street chess player than a chess scholar.

however, playing with humans especially in rated games can be scary and that discourages me to play. because ya know... its humans after all. who knows? you might meet the malicious ones...who will make excuses to damage your reputation

That is perfectly fine. But I do hope you realize you have the option to disable chat. And if it's them going out on the forums that you're worried about, don't be. It is against the website's policies to mention specific people and complaining about how they played (and trust me chess.com will do something if rules are broken) so they can't target you.