Author: Mike Plocica
Date: 16:33:41 07/31/04
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If u sign up for the free week that ICC gives anyone for trying out their service (first rate, by the way), U can play SloFlo, the regular bot that is normally around 1200 ELO. Is very good for beginners. Once in a while you will also see a bot called Polemeo on, that is a crippled version of "Crafty" that loves to give up pieces. As far as WBEC( http://wbec-ridderkerk.nl/ ), when the page comes up, near the top part is "ratings", if u right click on that and tell it to open in a new window, then scroll down to the bottom of the list for many of the weaker engines. Using 2 windows will allow u to look on 1 page and decide with the other more easily. Winboard is the first of the interfaces for playing against a computer engine, but not the most beginner friendly, especially setting up more/different engines, but there is a good FAQ/Help page to be found at Aaron's Guide ( http://www.aarontay.per.sg/Winboard/index.html ) It is quite extensive in the how-to department, and even now has a guide with plenty of screenshots to help walk U thru. If U would like a nicer interface that is a little easier to use and is full of many features, and can be used as interface on many of the free chess servers, I highly recommend "ARENA" ( http://www.playwitharena.com/ ) much more user friendly, and very well supported with bunches of extras that as u become more advanced in your chess playing abilities, will offer you plenty more oppurtunities to get better engines to play against and also excellent abilities to have the engines analyze and annotate your games for you. This is one of the most essential things for chess improvment, reviewing your games to see what you did wrong, and where you may improve from/to. There is also a page on Aarons FAQ about Arena and how to there also. The interface of Arena is much easier to load "engines" as we call them(bots as u refered to them) and to refer back to Aarons pages for more help on general ideas of how to set up most of them. Good luck and enjoy
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