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  • When I play bots I win 4 games to 1 up to 1600 bots. When I play people on chess.com rated 1000 and I’m rated 1000 I lose more than I win. Today I played a 1000 rated player and lost. His accuracy was 1700 mine was 1350. Then I played another 1000 player and won his accuracy was 1700 mine was 1750. Are the bots that much off from real players or…

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    • Didn’t mean to hit the like button on. My own post!

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      • Yeah, I’ve found that the bots ratings don’t correlate well to real people. The bots also just play differently than real people.

      • Just a tip for best use of the course is to follow Nelson’s advice to take a lesson and play. I’ve been on my own version of ratings climb using the bots after lessons. Started on 800 bots and kept playing until I beat all three at each level. Using the lessons I went through the levels easily until I hit 1600. I had a couple of losses one…

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        • Nelson has mentioned using whatever you are comfortable with! Sounds like you are doing great 👍🏼