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Feature request: bot accounts

I feel like some users test draughts engines on me. The games are casual so they do not break the rules. I would like to request an option for players to create official accounts for their bots. Lichess has this feature.

We will be adding bot accounts eventually, but the priority for now is first to add a computer opponent and computer analysis.

Note that draughts bot accounts aren't as straightforward as with chess, because chess engines use the standardized UCI protocol, while the authors of draughts engines mostly seem to invent their own protocols as needed. So you'd need to write a different API-client for different engines, and can't swap them around so easily (of course doable, but not as easy as "one client to rule them all").

Please add anti frisian. This should be easy enough. In the code, just swap between winning and losing conditions.

In the meantime, bot-accounts have been added to lidraughts, although thoroughly untested. The API is the same as on lichess, so in theory the same clients should work (as long as you remember that capture sequences should be played move by move).

Anyone is free to experiment with this on the basis of the lichess documentation / clients. There are likely to be some bugs, but we can weed them out together.

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