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CHESS ENGINES and COACHES will help you improve FASTER.

This site will teach you some methods and systems of training as well as lessons to help you become better players - beginners to experts. I’m a National Master in the Philippines and a coach of two prestigious schools. I’ll post my credentials later. For now I will give tips on how to train with the engines.

1. If you don’t have any chess playing programs yet, download Arena, its help file and books. Read the help files for directions. (I’ll discuss how to use Fritz n Chessbase in my next topics.) 2. Download the following engines in the Arena website. An alternative is WBEC Ridderkerk.

Engines Rating Xadreco 5.6 843 Chad'sChess 0.15 977 Youk 1.05 1139 Yawce 0.16 1284 Eden 0.0.11 1351 Cefap 0.7.2 1450 Tamerlane 0.2 1605 Aldebaran 0.70 1627 TSCP 1.81 1651 Brutus 3.4 1658 Fauce 0.41c 1708 Ajedrez Tactico 2.73b 1828 Alex 1.7.8 1830 RDChess 3.23 1831 Cilian 4.14 1865 BiBiChess 0.5 1920 Smash 1.0.3 1932 Feuerstein 0.4.5-b2 1992 Gerbil 0.2 1997 Matheus 2.3 2026 Ax 0.8 2027 BigLion 2.23w 2090

Please download the exact version of the engines to match with their ratings (based on Bayesian Elo Ratinglist WBEC Ridderkerk after edition 14 )

3. If you are a beginner, play the lowest rated engine first, Xadreco. It has all the characteristics of a beginner. If you have beaten it convincingly, play the next one. This method will reflect your approximate rating. Unlike us, the engines’ performance is stable. It doesn’t get tired, intimidated or over confident. The downside is you might not get pressured. That will be my next topic- “HOW CAN CHESS ENGINES MAKE YOU FEEL NERVOUS”? You will somehow simulate a game versus a human. You will be playing the engines as if you are playing in a tournament with all the pressures in it. Just remember, a practice against a human player is the still best. The engines are just tools for improvement. 4. Watch for my next topics as well. “Thinking Patterns and Methods”, “Training Systems”, “How to Study and Train Systematically”.

Enjoy the game. Savor the performance. Earn the result. TRAIN HARDER.