The bot's rating is adjusted up and down just like a normal player.
If people exploited it for rating points then it would be very underrated (for example finding an opening trap it always falls for) but your example game seems to show the opposite i.e. that it's overrated.
What you say may be true, but it is a fact that you can manipulate these things for rating gains at least to some extent.
It definitely feels a bit different, having rated bots.
But amazingly some people love them. Particularly I've heard some new players say they love the feature because they're too timid to try playing against real people, or they don't like the ego involved in human matches, so they only play bots.
Sure, it may be fun playing bots, but It's kind of weird that the games are rated, but then again, online chess has always had a kind of a video game vibe, unlike otb chess, so it kinda makes sense, I guess.
Even OTB used to allow rated computer to play in tournaments.
I mean, the rating system works regardless of who is playing so...
As long as it's not losing to the same trap over and over I don't see a problem. For example you're 1700... so you can't mine it for points, because if you're not already gaining 0 for a win, you will pretty soon (it's somewhere around a 400 point gap on chess.com).
But they still have a similar rating to you so the only advantage you have (if you can call it an advantage) is that you are a real person and the bot is a computer.
how to play rated games against bots?
how to play rated games against bots?
That hasn't been possible for a while.
how to play rated games against bots?
That hasn't been possible for a while.
oh did they stop doing that
I just realized it is possible to play rated games against bots on chess.com. I honestly think the whole concept of playing rated games against engines within predominantly human pool of players is ridiculous. You not only get to manipulate ratings by playing these bots over and over again, and getting free rating points basicaly every game, you are also in a way skewing other peoples' ratings by allowing these bots to particiapte along with humans. I just played a game against a 1379 rated bot and it played like an absolute retard: