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Proposal: A Roadmap/Progression System for Beating BOTs

For some bots this would work. However, unlike chess.com or others, lichess bots can be created and hosted by anybody. So for example if I want an achievement for beating a 2000 rated bot I can manually change @eclipsebot to random moves from my server. And anybody could do this - clone stockfish, host it as a lichess bot, wait for it to get an insane rating, then have it play a game against yourself and beat a 3600 rated bot. So this could be done if we have someone reliable to host bots, but currently we do not.

For some bots this would work. However, unlike chess.com or others, lichess bots can be created and hosted by anybody. So for example if I want an achievement for beating a 2000 rated bot I can manually change @eclipsebot to random moves from my server. And anybody could do this - clone stockfish, host it as a lichess bot, wait for it to get an insane rating, then have it play a game against yourself and beat a 3600 rated bot. So this could be done if we have someone reliable to host bots, but currently we do not.