I find it more relaxing to play bots. Playing ranked games can be so stressful, like writing code that cannot be edited, whenever there is a compile error the whole program has to be discarded... The undo button makes development much smoother, any "typos" that make the strategy simply not run can be changed to evaluate the overall situation. Like if you need to try ten branches to live with a group it was probably not a great invasion but if you anyhow find yourself in such a spot you have experience finding the one in ten shot for life.
Crazystone is great for such undoplorations, the mobile app is low dan but very snappy compared to the LZ programs I've tried. I used to play it for hours while doing other stuff (no need to fear distractions with unlimited undos) until I finally won the ultimate victory: capturing every single stone on the board.
Bots also wont throw rocks at your house for trying something that's "not supposed to work" so they are excellent for experimentation.
Does playing a high dan bot helps improving?
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Re: Does playing a high dan bot helps improving?
One thing that aids learning is feedback. Hence the importance of reviewing your games with the best bot you can. And immediate feedback is very good. Like, within one second. The bot, OC, can play that quickly. 
So how's this? Make your play, and then within one second see not only the bot's play, but its evaluation. If the evaluation changes by more than 3% against you (4% with Elf), back up to your previous play and try again.
This seems to be basically what TheLemon just said.
So how's this? Make your play, and then within one second see not only the bot's play, but its evaluation. If the evaluation changes by more than 3% against you (4% with Elf), back up to your previous play and try again.
This seems to be basically what TheLemon just said.
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Re: Does playing a high dan bot helps improving?
I don't think leela zero is best bot for a 3 kyu player. wont be human like at that level. If someone else at similar strength is wondering the same thing as op, Find one of these bots below that you can play an even game with. The rankings do not correspond to human rankings. You need a pc, gtp4zen, zen 6, zen 7, Sabaki, and katago with the 20b s2971 net. You can play with any standard board size, ruleset and komi. An old i3 and weak graphics card are good enough, or the new ryzen apus.
personally, I stream the pc to a likebook mars e ink ereader and use that to play over a real board.
set katago to play at your level https://docdro.id/sHZU1ti or experiment with gtp4zen ( https://rb.gy/kx2ilb )