The main bot answered /start with a single English line ("Tap to open Scrabble.").
Localize it: Russian or English by the sender's reported Telegram language
(Message.from.language_code, which the Bot API carries on the message itself — there is
no separate user-update event — English fallback), with the longer welcome copy and a
localized launch button ("Открыть «Эрудит»" / "Open “Erudite”").
The welcome links the game channel and the discussion chat by their public @username,
resolved once at startup from the configured TELEGRAM_GAME_CHANNEL_ID / TELEGRAM_CHAT_ID
via getChat and cached. A handle that is unset, private, or unreadable degrades to a
generic noun ("the channel" / "our chat") rather than a dangling "@", so the paragraph
always reads cleanly (the bot's info screen still lists the real links). Adds
GameChannelID to bot.Config (wired from the existing config) for the channel handle.
Tests: startText localization + handle embedding + per-slot generic fallback; handleStart
language selection; resolveWelcomeHandles. README updated.
Ilia Denisov